On Fri, 11 Apr 1997, Leslie Mikesell wrote: > > Yes. Many have raised the issue of conflicts on install. The answer at > > this > > point is to run configure over and over. Each time it will install > > something > > that is needed to settle the conflicts. The problem is that the selected > > files aren't in dependant order. Hopefully the new project will address > > this > > problem. > > Note that RedHat gets this right, at least on the initial install. They > prompt for groups of programs that generally would be chosen together > and hide the ugly details unless you ask to pick individual items. > It may be nice to individually pick every file on a unix distribution > but most people have better things to do. These days you probably > can't buy a disk that is too small to hold a fairly complete > installation.
Okay, apparently Debian also has no problem doing this, BUT if you do an ftp install it will fail because of a bug in dpkg-ftp, Bug#8660 actually. If you use a cdrom or some other mounted media it will be able to correctly identify the package order and install accordingly. If not then please tell me now! Thanks, Jason
