Anthony Towns <aj@azure.humbug.org.au> wrote: > There's nothing wrong with having libfoo-dev require libpng3 and bar > require libqt which needs libpng2; and it's completely reasonable to > expect to be able to build programs based on libfoo or libqt on a single > system without having to run apt-get in the meantime.
... > It'd be nicer, though, if it failed to link at all, assuming it's never > going to work. Is there any way to achieve this? Not exactly. But if all the -dev packages did what they were supposed to do and depended on the -dev packages of the libpng[23]-dev respectively, then you won't be able to have both of them installed at the same time. -- Debian GNU/Linux 2.2 is out! ( http://www.debian.org/ ) Email: Herbert Xu ~{PmV>HI~} <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Home Page: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/ PGP Key: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/pubkey.txt