> His suggestion was that ncurses-base should provid ncurses-runtime (and > conflict with it) while ncurses3.0-dev did the same for ncurses-developer. > This would, for instance, allow you to install ncurses-base without having > to uninstall ncurses-runtime *and* without you having to use > --force-depends. > > Does anybody have any problems with this? If not, I'll implement it ASAP.
But won't dpkg still force you to remove ncurses-runtime before you can install nurses-base and the same for ncurses-developer and ncurses3.0-dev? Perhaps we need a new control file field, such as 'Replaces' or 'Supercedes', that tells dpkg to automatically remove the old package when the new one is installed. Or is this capability already there and I just don't know about it yet? David -- David Engel Optical Data Systems, Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED] 1101 E. Arapaho Road (214) 234-6400 Richardson, TX 75081
