Re: Packages should not Conflict on the basis of duplicate funct

1999-09-28 Thread Chris Rutter
On Mon, 27 Sep 1999, Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote: > b) if you know what you are doing, compile the packages by hand, fix their > install scripts, and remove the conflicts. You are trying to circumvent the > norm. But I think, to be fair, that what he's proposing *isn't* necessarily `not the norm'

Re: Packages should not Conflict on the basis of duplicate functionality

1999-09-27 Thread Chris Rutter
On Sat, 25 Sep 1999, Raul Miller wrote: > Perhaps there are people who want a "service enabled by default" policy, > and perhaps we should accomodate them. However, I'm not one of them > and I don't want any services turned on on some of my machines without > my explicit ok. Yes, and I think thi

Re: Packages should not Conflict on the basis of duplicate functionality

1999-09-27 Thread Chris Rutter
On Fri, 24 Sep 1999, Clint Adams wrote: > They both provide httpd; should I file bugs against them demanding that > they conflict with it too? I think this is a good point; it doesn't seem to be a clear area of policy. It sounds like perhaps some new system needs to be implemented. Perhaps a Su