On Thu, Dec 06, 2007 at 10:12:57PM +0000, Neil Williams wrote: > Whilst most GPE components can be used separately, the full environment > needs to replace the existing desktop whether that be Gnome or KDE or > chaos may ensue due to the different needs of the target environments > and the underlying configuration mechanisms and solutions.
How does that warrant a conflict then? It's entirely possible to have both GNOME and KDE installed on a system and choose between them at runtime. > I would have put gpe-conf into extra but it needs to depend on packages > that are in optional because those can be used within Gnome or KDE or > any other desktop. Lots of packages depend on other packages of higher priority, that's perfectly normal. > I understand that - and I agree with you. However, packages in extra are > not supposed to depend upon or conflict with packages in optional and to > me, that makes no sense and just makes things difficult No, it doesn't make any sense, and it's not correct in the least. Where did you get this? Packages in *optional* are not supposed to conflict with other packages of priority *optional*. Packages are not supposed to depend on packages with a *lower* priority. It's certainly ok for packages in extra to depend on packages in optional, and *conflicting* with packages in optional is one of the stated criteria for putting packages /into/ extra. -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. Ubuntu Developer http://www.debian.org/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
