On Thu, 2008-09-18 at 16:19 -0300, Fabricio Cannini - Yahoo wrote: > On Thursday 18 September 2008 15:05:17 Stephen Olander-Waters wrote: > > Allow me to unrecommend Blackdown JRE 1.4.2. Unfortunately, the > > maintainers of xul-runner have seen fit to conflict with every version > > of jre 1.4.2. > > > > Your choices are to force reinstallation of Blackdown 1.4.2 after every > > dist-upgrade or install it outside of package management. > > > > Those of us stuck with legacy applications on modern OS's are in a bind > > with this situation. > > > > -s > > Hi Stephen! > > Have you tried to use /etc/apt/preferences' do disallow apt-get/aptitude of > uninstalling Blackdown's jre ?
No. I did not think that worked for conflicting packages. I thought it would make xulrunner uninstall or disable dist-upgrading. Is that not true? -s -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]