Re: Packages should not Conflict on the basis of duplicate functionality

1999-09-30 Thread Francois Gurin
On Thu, Sep 30, 1999 at 08:05:32AM +1000, Craig Sanders wrote: > the "we-know-better-than-you" attitude is what redhat and caldera (and > microsoft, for that matter) does. it sucks. debian has always done > better than that - our way is to encourage people to learn to do it for > themself by not tr

Re: Packages should not Conflict on the basis of duplicate functionality

1999-09-29 Thread Francois Gurin
> ok. i just don't think it's as big a deal as some people do. more to the > point, i think that doing the opposite (i.e. not enabling services by > default when a package is installed) will cause even more problems (and > confusion and hassle) to everyone else. > > i.e. there's a tiny minority wh