'[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:' > > Raul Miller writes: > Raul> It does look like dvips was superceeded by some other package, and > Raul> that it did originally have some executables in it. > >Nils switched to the upstream convention of reflecting the 'k' for Karl >Berry's kpathsea in the package name. > >I had moaned about this weeks ago. You have to manually delete dvips after >installing dvipsk, xdvi after xdvik etc. A "Conflicts:" in debian.control >might have helped here. Or a new "Replaces:" field.
Yes, this seems to me a good idea. Conflicts involves too much administrator intervention. Ian, can we have this feature in dpkg? -- Christopher J. Fearnley | UNIX SIG Leader at PACS [EMAIL PROTECTED] (finger me!) | (Philadelphia Area Computer Society) http://www.netaxs.com/~cjf | Design Science Revolutionary ftp://ftp.netaxs.com/people/cjf | Explorer in Universe "Dare to be Naive" -- Bucky Fuller | Linux Advocate