What you really want to do is to implement Recommanded-Conflicts: brokenmailer, etcpassoire, trivialtohackftpd or even Suggested-Conflicts: easyr00ted, lametelnetd Right ?
Well, creates an harden-recommanded-conflicts package that conflicts with brokenmailer, etcpassoire, trivialtohackftpd and a harden-suggested-conflicts package that conflicts with easyr00ted, lametelnetd Then make task-harden to Recommands: harden-recommanded-conflicts and Suggests: harden-suggested-conflicts. It is not the real things, but closer than removing packages, because it last after installation.(your scheme does not prevend etcpassoire too be installed after task-harden) (the real thing woud be to have a handful of packages harden-conflict-brokenmailer,harden-conflict-etcpassoire, harden-conflict-trivialtohackftpd etc... that each conflicts with the named package, but it lead to half dozen stupid virtual package more.) Also consider how works task-packages: It is an empty package. We install it. We got all the Depended, Recommended packages. Afterward we can remove it safely, without affecting these packages. So if tasken-harden conflicts with easyr00ted and I really need/want easyr00ted, I can remove task-harden after it has been successfully installed and install easyr00ted. If too many people object that conflict in task package are evil, then use an intermediate package as described above. HTH, Bill. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
