David Stacey writes: >> It looks like both OS X's Homebrew and Debian's Apt deal with this by >> just having the packages conflict. > > Several other distros do likewise: Fedora / CentOS, openSUSE, > Slackware, Ubuntu.
These all have package managers that will tell you about the conflict when you try to install the second one of these. Some even have (at least in principle) the ability to make the two packages mutually exclusive. Regards, Achim. -- +<[Q+ Matrix-12 WAVE#46+305 Neuron microQkb Andromeda XTk Blofeld]>+ Waldorf MIDI Implementation & additional documentation: http://Synth.Stromeko.net/Downloads.html#WaldorfDocs