Clint Adams wrote: > Perhaps identd isn't an example to be taken seriously. So let's > say that I have a POP server. > These packages don't conflict; they merely provide the same > service. There is no reason that these three packages cannot > coexist on the same system. Any namespace overlap can be > solved by alternatives or renaming, as such things are normally > rectified.
Another example is a UPS monitor. Currently, most of them conflict because they all have a /etc/init.d/ups-monitor file. Peter
