[ about conflicts when installing everything in debian ] Jack Nutting wrote: > That being said, perhaps there should be a predefined > installation selection (among the listed configurations you get > when you run dselect on a new installation) where something as > close as possible to "everything" is installed. So if there are > multiple, conflicting versions of a library or tool, the newest > stable version would be installed; Where there are conflicts > between functionally overlapping packages (like > smail/sendmail/exim as you mentioned above), perhaps it should > install none of them, and output into a log file some > human-readable summary of which conflicting packages the user may > want to choose from, so they can easily see what they might want > to go back and install later. Just some ideas...
In fact that could be done with the profiles offered on a new debian 2.0 installation (maybe it is done, I don't remember the options). Is there a way to get into this `profile selection' later on, when you have debian up and running? Eric -- E.L. Meijer ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) | tel. office +31 40 2472189 Eindhoven Univ. of Technology | tel. lab. +31 40 2475032 Lab. for Catalysis and Inorg. Chem. (TAK) | tel. fax +31 40 2455054