On 2023-04-30 12:25, Jon Turney wrote:
On 28/04/2023 06:51, Brian Inglis wrote:
On 2023-04-27 10:11, Jon Turney wrote:
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I think this functionality needs to exist in setup as well, though, as calm
can't possibly have knowledge of packages you might be installing from 3rd
party overlay package repositories.
Please make any of these conflict messages warnings only, as few packages use
alternatives, and there may well be benign duplication,
Your mention of 'alternatives' makes no sense to me.
The alternatives symlinks are not (and should not be) part of the package, but
created or updated by postinstall scripts.
(It seems like it's impossible to make them work sensibly otherwise, as the link
would be that from the most recently installed package (which could be any of
the parallel installable alternatives), not the highest priority one.)
e.g. multiple language versions, as we normally get complaints about conflicts.
I don't know what this refers to. Can you give an example?
As only a few packages use alternatives, and there may be multiple versions of
packages for different language versions, e.g. python3... there may be some
duplicate driver/selector file paths in some packages for different versions if
they may be installed in parallel, and later versions do not obsolete earlier.
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Take care. Thanks, Brian Inglis Calgary, Alberta, Canada
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