On Tue, 19 Jan 1999, Santiago Vila wrote: > > Surely not? > > > > Surely the Replace/Provide/Conflict combination will make dselect pick the > > new ones? > > I'm sorry but I'm afraid this is not the case. > > I hate to say this, but please read the packaging manual and/or the policy > manual. I think you could be a little bit confused about the meaning of > some of these fields. > > If you want a short explanation, here is one: dselect will not take > in account *any* of the fields in the packages you *don't* have installed, > unless there is an unsatisfied dependency.
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