Chuck Shirley wrote: >On Sunday 04 August 2002 09:10, Eugenio Diaz wrote: > >>[root@fulgore:/home/linux/mandrake-devel/cooker/cooker/Mandrake/RPMS]# >>rpm -ivh TiMidity++-2.11.3-1mdk.i586.rpm >>error: failed dependencies: >> TiMidity++ conflicts with kdemultimedia-3.0.2-4mdk >>[root@fulgore:/home/linux/mandrake-devel/cooker/cooker/Mandrake/RPMS]# >> >>Why should this two conflict? >> > >[root@soth cooker]# rpm -qf /usr/bin/timidity >TiMidity++-2.11.3-1mdk >kdemultimedia-3.0.2-4mdk > >It has been this way for some time, at least sine KDE3, but maybe even >longer, I can't remember. manually upgrdade these packages, TiMidity++ >first, then kdemultimedia using plain rpm -Uvh --force. It is not >pretty, but it gets the job done. > I don't use the package. I was just concerned about what is the proper behaviour and consistency of the distro ... especially now with the upcomming release. In my opinion this is a "distro bug" that needs to be fixed.
-- Eugenio Diaz, BSEE/BSCE Linux Engineer [EMAIL PROTECTED]
