Dependencies of libraries libc5-libc6 libraries

1997-11-27 Thread Philippe Troin
Having some arguments with someone about dependencies of libraries, I've posted here to have this sorted out. Assume you have: libfoo libc5 compatibility library libfoo-altdevlibc5 compatibility development package libfoog libc6 library libf

Re: additional virtual packages for kde

1997-11-27 Thread Andreas Jellinghaus
On Wed 26 Nov 1997, Bdale Garbee wrote: > In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you wrote: > > : their packages are available, ours not... > > I think there are two things that I must have missed in the discussion on this > topic: > > - why are there two sets of KDE packages? One should be suffi

Re: additional virtual packages for kde

1997-11-27 Thread Andreas Jellinghaus
> (For simplity and without loss of generality, I'm just describing the > solution for kdebase and kdegraphics. Furthermore, the "Depends:" lines > have been simplified.) > > The Debian packages: > Package: kdelibs0g > > Package: kdebase > Depends: kdelibs0g, ... > > Package: kdegraphics >

Re: additional virtual packages for kde

1997-11-27 Thread Andreas Jellinghaus
> Won't our turning off --force-overwrite in 2.0 be a more realistic > solution of this problem? Aren't most package conflicts really > related to their usage of competing file structures? Or am I totally > off-base here? kde's version of kdelib is not compatible with my kdelib : we have differe

Re: additional virtual packages for kde

1997-11-27 Thread Christian Schwarz
Andreas, please tell us which problems you see with the following solution. (For simplity and without loss of generality, I'm just describing the solution for kdebase and kdegraphics. Furthermore, the "Depends:" lines have been simplified.) The Debian packages: Package: kdelibs0g Package:

Re: additional virtual packages for kde

1997-11-27 Thread Martin Schulze
On Wed, Nov 26, 1997 at 10:07:08PM -0700, Bdale Garbee wrote: > In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you wrote: > > : their packages are available, ours not... > > I think there are two things that I must have missed in the discussion on this > topic: > > - why are there two sets of KDE packages

Re: additional virtual packages for kde

1997-11-27 Thread Bdale Garbee
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you wrote: : their packages are available, ours not... I think there are two things that I must have missed in the discussion on this topic: - why are there two sets of KDE packages? One should be sufficient. - why can't "your" KDE packages be mad