On Mon, Jul 20, 2020 at 11:52:15PM +0000, Paul Wise wrote: > On Mon, Jul 20, 2020 at 6:48 PM Adrian Bunk wrote: >... > > If we start allowing conflicts between completely unrelated packages > > it might not end well in the long run. > > We already have had situations where related packages effectively > conflict, for example for a while mypaint and gimp couldn't be > installed together on the same system running testing.
It is even in stable. And it is a pain for users. Marginally better than not shipping mypaint at all. > > Imagine the GNU Interactive Tools would still provide /usr/bin/git > > with such a Conflicts. > > IMO that wouldn't have been a big problem given the relative > popularity of the two packages. The binary package git were the GNU Interactive Tools. Which of the two packages would command-not-found suggest when a user tried to execute git with neither installed? What would happen if some popular package would add a dependency on the GNU Interactive Tools? The gimp/mypaint situation was a fixable bug, this would be a permanent split of the archive. > bye, > pabs cu Adrian
