(cc:ing the submitters of the bugs merged with this one) WordPerfect 8 works with xlib6, xpm4.7 and libc5. Until release 4.3 of xfree86 I had these installed and marked "hold" and I had no problem. Now I have installed xlibs 4.3.0 which Conflicts with xlib6, forcing it off my system. I don't immediately see the reason for this. xlib6 installs files in /usr/i486-linuxlibc1/ so there is no pathname collision with anything in current xfree86 packages. When I remove (but don't purge) xlibs and install xlib6 my system works perfectly again.
> I'd really like to force them off the system. Why? > Would it be so awful to rebuild some of these packages that haven't > been updated since potato? You mean rename and rebuild xlib6 and stick it in the oldlibs section? That would be fine with me, but I would like to know why we have to do that. -- Thomas Hood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
