On 2018-09-08, Sylvestre Ledru <sylves...@debian.org> wrote: >> Two different packages must not install programs with different >> functionality but with the same filenames. >> > I think the policy should be changed. > It was possible to accommodate that when the archive was a few thousand > packages.
> Or am I missing a key reason for this? If we allow conflicts in this case, we disallow users to use both tools at the same time. And on multiple-users machines, it is kind of a random what tool they actually get when they invoke a binary. I think that is a disservice to our users. Suddenly getting a sudo clone invoked when you want your build to build fast is kind of .. suprising. /Sune
