I just looked around a bit on my box via "dpkg -l" and saw that I had archie, xarchieR6 dvips, dvipsk fvwm, fvwmR6 ghostview, ghostviewR6 xdvi, xdvik xpm, xpmR6 installed. That is really quite some avoidable clutter.
Not that I am in favour of creping featurism---but could we find a means of declaring in the control file that the installion of foobar should delete foobarpre? What I can think of as a quick hack is the "Conflicts:" field but this still forces the sysadmin the do it by hand. Better would be something along the lines of a field "Replaces:" with values as for the "Depends:" field. Then dvipsk-5.58f-3, to pick one example, could say "Replaces: dvips (<5.58f-2)" and my copy of dvips-5.58f-2 would have been taken away automatically by dpkg. Comments? -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://qed.econ.queensu.ca/~edd