[pkg-discuss] How to mark a dir as symlink or is it a bug in pkg? (fwd)

[Andras Barna]

i bet that they conflict if you try to install them

On Tue, May 19, 2009 at 11:12 PM, Jyri Virkki <Jyri.Virkki at sun.com> 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.
>
> 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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