Am 05.12.2010 um 12:05 schrieb Harald Dunkel: > I found this in debian/control for libgl1-mesa-glx: > > : > Conflicts: libgl1, libgl1-mesa-dri (<< 6.4.0) > Replaces: libgl1, libgl1-mesa-dri (<< 6.4.0) > Provides: libgl1 > : > > This looks weird to me. How can it replace and conflict with > its own virtual package name?
There is nothing wrong with that, packages providing mail-transport-agent are in the same situation. > Doesn't this mean that no other > packages providing libgl1 can be installed, Not along libgl1-mesa-glx, yes. It's not like there are many other providers currently. > making /etc/alternatives useless? There are no alternatives in the libgl1-mesa-glx package, could you please elaborate? > Any helpful comment would be highly appreciated. Hope this was helpful enough. What do you want to do, anyway? Cheers, Sven -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentors-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/87bp50s8dl....@turtle.gmx.de