On 29/12/17 22:05, Herbert Fortes wrote: > Hi Andrew Shadura and Jonathan Dowland, > > > First, let's not make big noise about this. > > But I do not understand. It seems to me that an alias > solves the issue. And the user can set anything he > wants. Base on that, the use of 'Conflicts' seems too > much. It changes a lot of things. What am I not seem ? > I learned that a NMU is when the package has a maintainer > but the maintainer does not take care the package, the > maintainer does not shows some activity for some time.
An alias is something the user would need to manually set up. Some users might not know aliases exist, others might not want to set up an alias. Why make the life of a user more inconvenient, when you as a maintainer can fix that on your side? If you think Conflicts is too strong, you can provide alternatives, an option Jonathan has suggested. That would allow the user to co-install two packages if they want, but if you make the X11 version of the package provide an alternative with a higher priority, it will be used by default when both packages are installed. -- Cheers, Andrew
