Robert Milkowski wrote:
>
> Otherwise we will end up with situation where user will be able to install 
> package A or B but not both... it shouldn't happen with the packages 
> coming from official repositories.

IPS probably lacks this feature, but another very useful capability in
debian is the ability to have mutually exclusive packages which
deliver overlapping files.

An easy example is multiple packages which deliver /usr/lib/sendmail
http://packages.debian.org/lenny/i386/postfix/filelist
http://packages.debian.org/lenny/i386/exim4-daemon-heavy/filelist
...


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Jyri J. Virkki - [email protected] - Sun Microsystems
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