Dave Sherohman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Troy Telford said: > > Also - I know there is a XF4 deb packaging project, and it's rather... > > alpha. Is there at least a meta-package that will meet all the XF86 > > dependancies, and not be overwritten by XF86 3 debs? (Meaning, it meets > > the deps for it, but it'll let me use the existing tarball installation > > from XF86.org?) > > Check out the equivs package. It lets you create dummy packages that say > various dependencies are provided/required to handle situations like this.
You could also put them on hold with dselect. -- Olaf Meeuwissen Epson Kowa Corporation, Research and Development