2009/9/19 Eugene V. Lyubimkin <jackyf.de...@gmail.com>:
> Anton Piatek wrote:
>>> This should really be done by the package management, not by the user.
>>
>> It sounds like you are describing the following:
>>>> $stable: package foo
>> manually installed
>>>> $stable + 1: foo Depends bar, bar {replaces foo, provides foo, conflicts
>>>> foo}
>> foo should now be marked as removeable, bar should be marked as
>> manually installed (i.e. take the state associated with foo)
>>
>> Can any of that be achieved with postinst scripts?
> That's a very bad idea IMO.
Care to elaborate?
Anton
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