On 02/21/2015 07:54 PM, Sebastiaan Couwenberg wrote: > On 02/21/2015 06:00 PM, Francesco P. Lovergine wrote: >> On Sat, Feb 21, 2015 at 05:47:19PM +0100, Sebastiaan Couwenberg wrote: >>> >>> What changes do you propose for the official Debian package to allow the >>> co-existence with the GRASS upstream packages? >>> [...] >>> The /usr/bin/grass to grass70 & grass71 executable in grass-core would >>> conflict between these packages. But IIRC the upstream GRASS packages >>> don't contain that symlink. The same may apply to the x-grass script, >>> but thank may get fixed when I address the issue raised by Martin [1]. >>> >>> [1] https://lists.debian.org/debian-gis/2015/02/msg00047.html >>> >> >> Adopting alternatives mechanism for grass, x-grass.sh and manpages would >> probably suffices. I'm not sure if that would really solve a true user's >> need, >> or it is only superfluous trick. > > If we all drop /usr/bin/grass & /usr/bin/x-grass the packages should be > able to co-exist. I've dropped these from the official Debian package.
I've reinstated these symlinks, and will rely on the Conflicts with the upstream grass7* packages to force the user to choose whose packages it wants to use. Kind Regards, Bas -- GPG Key ID: 4096R/6750F10AE88D4AF1 Fingerprint: 8182 DE41 7056 408D 6146 50D1 6750 F10A E88D 4AF1 _______________________________________________ grass-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/grass-dev
