Re: conflicts in Debian Distributions

1998-10-29 Thread Michele Bini
On Mon, Oct 26, 1998 at 08:40:20AM -0600, Lance Arsenault wrote: > It's a pain to have to pick through 1000 + packages to install. I prefer to > just > install all of them without picking through them. Hard disk space is now > cheep, > and time is not. You don't have to pick through 4000+ packa

Re: conflicts in Debian Distributions

1998-10-29 Thread E.L. Meijer \(Eric\)
> > It should be easier for "normal" packages (without daemons, inetd.conf > enties etc.) to have two conflicting packages installed. For example, > I'd like to have gs-alladin and gs installed in parallel; gs-alladin > for it's pdf support, and gs for it's better Epson Stylus Color driver. > But

Re: conflicts in Debian Distributions

1998-10-28 Thread Harald Weidner
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Jack Nutting <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >That being said, perhaps there should be a predefined installation selection >(among the listed configurations you get when you run dselect on a new >installation) where something as close as possible to "everything" is

Re: conflicts in Debian Distributions

1998-10-28 Thread Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho
Please, if you are cc:-ing me, only cc my reply-to address. On Wed, Oct 28, 1998 at 11:46:32AM -0500, Person, Rod wrote: > This morning I was rebuilding my system and I selected perl and > perl-base. And a got a strange conflict dependency error. It said: > > perl (version numbers from hamm stabl

RE: conflicts in Debian Distributions

1998-10-28 Thread Person, Rod
.debian.org > Subject: Re: conflicts in Debian Distributions > > Hello, > > Antti-Juhani wrote on debian-user: > > On Mon, Oct 26, 1998 at 11:05:42AM -0800, Kenneth Scharf wrote: > ... > > > I would agree however, that a good description of each package > wo

Re: conflicts in Debian Distributions

1998-10-28 Thread Kenneth Scharf
Hello, Antti-Juhani wrote on debian-user: > On Mon, Oct 26, 1998 at 11:05:42AM -0800, Kenneth Scharf wrote: ... > > I would agree however, that a good description of each package would > > help you decide what to install. > > Please tell me, what you would consider a good description! Feel fre

Re: conflicts in Debian Distributions

1998-10-27 Thread Jiri Baum
Hello, Antti-Juhani wrote on debian-user: > On Mon, Oct 26, 1998 at 11:05:42AM -0800, Kenneth Scharf wrote: ... > > I would agree however, that a good description of each package would > > help you decide what to install. > > Please tell me, what you would consider a good description! Feel free

Re: conflicts in Debian Distributions

1998-10-27 Thread Remco van de Meent
On Tue, Oct 27, 1998 at 07:16:55PM +0100, Santiago Vila Doncel wrote: : If I understand well our Debian policy, you should be able to install ALL : packages having priority >= optional, i.e. all packages but those having : "extra" priority. : : Therefore if you find one optional package that

Re: conflicts in Debian Distributions

1998-10-27 Thread Santiago Vila Doncel
Hi. If I understand well our Debian policy, you should be able to install ALL packages having priority >= optional, i.e. all packages but those having "extra" priority. Therefore if you find one optional package that conflicts with another optional package, then it is a bug and you may report it

Re: conflicts in Debian Distributions

1998-10-26 Thread Stephen J. Carpenter
On Mon, Oct 26, 1998 at 09:38:46PM +0200, Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho wrote: > On Mon, Oct 26, 1998 at 11:05:42AM -0800, Kenneth Scharf wrote: > > The point Kenneth is making is true. However: > > > You can't have two (or more) mail clients installed at the same > > time, > ... > > There are at least

Re: conflicts in Debian Distributions

1998-10-26 Thread Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho
On Mon, Oct 26, 1998 at 11:05:42AM -0800, Kenneth Scharf wrote: The point Kenneth is making is true. However: > You can't have two (or more) mail clients installed at the same > time, ... > There are at least half a dozen window managers in X for example, > you can only use one. Here though all

Re: conflicts in Debian Distributions

1998-10-26 Thread Daniel Martin
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Lance Arsenault) writes: > I just would like to know if Debian 2.0 has conflicting software > in it like Debian 1.3.1 . > > Background: Debian 1.3.1 would not let you install all the software > in the release. Installing all the software in the release saves a > lot of time

Re: conflicts in Debian Distributions

1998-10-26 Thread E.L. Meijer \(Eric\)
[ about conflicts when installing everything in debian ] Jack Nutting wrote: > That being said, perhaps there should be a predefined > installation selection (among the listed configurations you get > when you run dselect on a new installation) where something as > close as possible to "everything

Re: conflicts in Debian Distributions

1998-10-26 Thread Jack Nutting
Noah L. Meyerhans wrote: > On Mon, 26 Oct 1998, Lance Arsenault wrote: > > > Background: Debian 1.3.1 would not let you install all the software > > in the release. Installing all the software in the release saves a > > lot of time, and hard drive space is cheeper than time. > > > > I have used D

Re: conflicts in Debian Distributions

1998-10-26 Thread Noah L. Meyerhans
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Mon, 26 Oct 1998, Lance Arsenault wrote: > Background: Debian 1.3.1 would not let you install all the software > in the release. Installing all the software in the release saves a > lot of time, and hard drive space is cheeper than time. > > I have used