On Mon, Jan 17, 2005 at 03:53:58PM +0100, Santiago Vila wrote: > On Tue, 18 Jan 2005, Anthony Towns wrote: > > We really need to get dpkg/apt and dselect/aptitude working as designed. > > Not supporting auto-selecting packages like this, in spite of it > > having been documented for years, is just embarassing. > > I agree, but I'm not sure that conflicts/replaces/provides is an > elegant way of telling the package manager "this package is what > this other package used to be".
According to Ian, a simple Replaces was originally intended to have those semantics (in addition to suppressing warnings about overwritten files). Conflicts/Replaces/Provides would indeed be overkill. -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
