At 3:02 Uhr +0900 14.03.2002, Masanori Sekino wrote: >-common package is a common files for -shlibs packages. > >fooN-shlibs packages should be installable at the same time, but if >they contains a same file, /etc/foo.conf for example, they can't >coexists. In this case, foo-common package contains /etc/foo.conf >and all the fooN-shlibs depends on it. This is why we needs -common >package.
Not necessarily, at least not for the reasons you cite - after all, we have update-alternatives, which you should at least consider using. Especially for charset.alias, which is also part of various other packages (gettext, libiconv). Max -- ----------------------------------------------- Max Horn Software Developer email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> phone: (+49) 6151-494890 _______________________________________________ Fink-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-devel
