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
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