On 2008/07/23 22:39, Steven Mestdagh wrote:
> Stuart Henderson [2008-07-23, 11:58:00]:
> > On 2008/07/23 11:04, Edd Barrett wrote:
> > > On Tue, Jul 22, 2008 at 6:41 PM, Steven Mestdagh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 
> > > wrote:
> > > > The purpose of multipackages is to split stuff up in several parts, not
> > > > overlapping. What would be the advantage of changing that? I do find the
> > > > current -full pkgname confusing, it's more like "extra". When I read 
> > > > "full"
> > > > I assume everything is in one monolithic package.
> > > 
> > > Ok, I can probably rename that, but again upgrades will not be smooth,
> > > as the -full package will still be around with conflicting files for
> > > -extra.
> > 
> > @pkgpath and @conflict can help there.
> 
> pkg_add -u does not deal with renamed PKGNAMEs at the moment, AFAIK.

ah sorry, I was thinking of xpdf (where a single package was split
in two, but the newly created package could be made a dependency of
the main one - that doesn't apply here with texlive).

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