I don't think so. The whole point of "Provides: foo; Conflicts: foo"
in several packages is that there *cannot* be more than one such
package installed at once.

dan

On Wed, Nov 26, 2003 at 11:47:33AM -0800, Ben Hines wrote:
> It has to be ignored, because you can have multiple Provides: of the 
> same 'package' installed at once. For example, you could have two 
> Provides: mta packages installed at once.. dpkg wouldn't know which one 
> to 'replace'... one? both?
> 
> On Nov 26, 2003, at 12:31 AM, Daniel Macks wrote:
> 
> >Turns out that in such a case, the exclusive presence of each package
> >is enforced (Provides/Conflicts) but the trying to install a second
> >one does not result in removal of what's already there (Replaces is
> >apparently ignored (?!)). This appears to be true even using the
> >latest dpkg (1.10.18, patched in analogy to fink's 1.10.9).

-- 
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