On Wed, Feb 06, 2002 at 02:03:09PM -0500, Phil Edwards wrote: > Okay, there's a software package out there which is being tracked by > Debian, but only very slowly. Some random guy built RPMs for it, so I > thought I'd grab them, and then use either 'rpm' or 'alien' to put the > package onto my testing/unstable machine. > > Grief... > > - alien wants rpm (and so do I, so it's not really alien's fault) > > - rpm depends on librpm4 > > BUT > > - librpm4 conflicts with librpm0, and > > - something called "kpackage" depends on librpm0
This will hopefully be fixed very soon, since rpm had failed to build on m68k but recently compiled correctly. > I don't use kpackage, but I can't remove it, because > > - kde depends on kpackage > > So anytime I try to do anything with 'rpm' dselect/apt-get attempts to > remove the entire KDE suite. Are you sure? The package kde itself is only a metapackage, removing it would not cause any other kde applications to be removed. > Maybe a bug should be filed against KDE? Why does it depend on kpackage? kde is only a meta package which pulls in all/most of the kde packages to make it easier to install. The bug exists on rpm already and I believe was fixed today, I haven't looked in the archive yet. Chris
