On 2006-05-14 21:06:50 -0400, David Nusinow wrote: > We've found a good solution for this bug.
A solution that breaks the system is not a good solution. The breakage for official Debian packages is avoided thanks to the many conflicts in the "Conflicts:" field, but this doesn't work with packages that come from a 3rd party source[*]: as there's no such conflict, one can install/uninstall them without any error, with the effect that dpkg removes the symbolic link /usr/X11R6/bin (and prevents any later upgrade of x11-common). [*] or a patched official package (following some Debian documentation). And even with only official Debian packages, this solution is fragile, because if some new package adds /usr/X11R6/bin by mistake, this will also break the system. -- Vincent Lefèvre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - Web: <http://www.vinc17.org/> 100% accessible validated (X)HTML - Blog: <http://www.vinc17.org/blog/> Work: CR INRIA - computer arithmetic / SPACES project at LORIA
