Robert T Wyatt wrote:
> FYI to the various maintainers:
> 
> While installing cwp-su (from the 10.4-unstable tree) dpkg complains
> about:
> trying to overwrite '/sw/bin/grm', which is also in package coreutils
> and
> trying to overwrite '/sw/bin/isatty', which is also in package modglue
> 
> You may already be aware of this, but there it is. Using
> sudo dpkg -i --force-overwrite /pathto/cwp-su_38-1_darwin-powerpc.deb
> works in the meantime.

Let's see: cwp-su dumps about 350 new executables into /sw/bin, as 
symlinks, but they are there anyway. Some of those that it would like to 
install are already being removed because of conflicts, but more 
conflicts are rather likely in the future.

Wouldn't it be simpler to leave the safely in /sw/lib/cwp-su/bin where 
they are now, but instead of making symlinks in /sw/bin, place a script 
in /sw/etc/profile.d that prepends /sw/lib/cwp-su to PATH?

I would find a similar solution for coreutils[-defaults] much cleaner, 
too, than the current pollution of /sw/bin with dozens of unix command 
names in disguise.

-- 
Martin

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