Re: conflicting -dev packages

2003-02-16 Thread Oohara Yuuma
On 15 Feb 2003 14:02:00 +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Kai Henningsen) wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Oohara Yuuma) wrote > on 15.02.03 in <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > On 15 Feb 2003 08:58:00 +0200, > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Kai Henningsen) wrote: > > > We have too many conflict

Re: conflicting -dev packages

2003-02-15 Thread Andrew Suffield
On Sat, Feb 15, 2003 at 08:58:00AM +0200, Kai Henningsen wrote: > We have too many conflicting -dev packages. Yes, and it's bloody hard to fix. There are two problems involved for C libraries (and analogous ones for others) - the symlink in /usr/lib, and the headers. > Suppose I had t

Re: conflicting -dev packages

2003-02-15 Thread Kai Henningsen
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Josip Rodin) wrote on 15.02.03 in <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Sat, Feb 15, 2003 at 08:58:00AM +0200, Kai Henningsen wrote: > > The only time I see where deviating from that rule would be justified is > > when two -dev packages Depend: on some other packages that cannot be made >

Re: conflicting -dev packages

2003-02-15 Thread Josip Rodin
On Sat, Feb 15, 2003 at 08:58:00AM +0200, Kai Henningsen wrote: > The only time I see where deviating from that rule would be justified is > when two -dev packages Depend: on some other packages that cannot be made > non-conflicting, so that avoiding the conflict at the -dev level would not >

Re: conflicting -dev packages

2003-02-15 Thread Kai Henningsen
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Oohara Yuuma) wrote on 15.02.03 in <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On 15 Feb 2003 08:58:00 +0200, > [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Kai Henningsen) wrote: > > We have too many conflicting -dev packages. > Because we have the .so -> .so.x.y.z symlinks. Don't bother repl

Re: conflicting -dev packages

2003-02-15 Thread Oohara Yuuma
On 15 Feb 2003 08:58:00 +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Kai Henningsen) wrote: > We have too many conflicting -dev packages. Because we have the .so -> .so.x.y.z symlinks. -- Oohara Yuuma <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Debian developer PGP key (key ID F464A695) http://www.interq.or.jp/libra/oohara

conflicting -dev packages

2003-02-15 Thread Kai Henningsen
We have too many conflicting -dev packages. Suppose I had two projects - one wanting to use Berkeley DB 4.1, one for an Apache module. I'd need to constantly reinstall the various -dev packages because apache-dev depends on libdb2-dev, and libdb2-dev and libdb4.1-dev conflict. Now su