On Tue, May 19, 2009 at 01:12:02PM -0700, Jyri Virkki wrote: > 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.
We haven't yet implemented an exclude dependency, but presumably that's equivalnet to what you're talking about. > 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 Of course, a better solution is mailwrapper (PSARC/2008/759) which would allow them to co-exist. :) Danek _______________________________________________ pkg-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/pkg-discuss
