-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- On Mon, 26 Oct 1998, Lance Arsenault wrote:
> Background: Debian 1.3.1 would not let you install all the software > in the release. Installing all the software in the release saves a > lot of time, and hard drive space is cheeper than time. > > I have used Debian 1.3.1 in the past but I think that having packages > that confict is a bad thing. I think that making all the packages > in Debian compatable would be a big plus. In Debian 1.3.1 this is > not the cast. For example you cannot install emacs and xemacs in Debian > 1.3.1 . > I'm guessing some of the filenames in these two packages are the same. > To get rid of this confict you can just install them in different directories > or > something like that. This issue was discussed just recently on this list. Some packages naturally conflict. The emacs/xemacs conflict was resolved for 2.0, but there are other cases where a conflict is simply a fact of life that can't easily be avoided. The example that came up most frequently involved smail, sendmail, exim, etc. It would make no sense to be able to install each of these on a single system. Having them all installed at once would lead to chaos, because they'd all be trying to do each others job (that is, deliver mail for the system). Some package conflicts are inherent to the nature of the package, not to the way Debian puts together its distribution. Noah PGP public key available at http://lynx.dac.neu.edu/home/httpd/n/nmeyerha/mail.html or by 'finger -l [EMAIL PROTECTED]' -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.2 iQCVAwUBNjSWl4dCcpBjGWoFAQGRAwQAlzhmx41hKyFZLDyqozx6LFEQweAI7b3U BWDZ08UiE8xuAZ53DNVl86O6utK22CJafEAYyFRFtAYq8D+lkEqJABtvn325OeQo k7fWfmhR+aQwvTUqeAibDqz/aP+NXj8P/V1R8p3a/335RWTluqHSWzuTk/e4XuVl 1k5ySYieM+8= =dbz2 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
