Meta package conflict statements

Tim Gardner tim.gardner at canonical.com
Tue Nov 30 21:24:21 UTC 2010


On 11/30/2010 02:20 PM, Tim Gardner wrote:
> Leann,
>
> I've been looking at the Lucid and Maverick meta packages regarding the
> 'Conflicts:' statements in each of the debian/control.d flavours. I'm
> thinking they really aren't necessary since the LBM packages themselves
> have all of the conflict statements. Furthermore, they are coded in only
> one place (debian/control.d/flavour-control.stub) which is a heck of a
> lot less complex then encoding this information 6 or 8 times in each of
> the meta package flavour files. It seems to me that the package resolver
> will just do the right thing given each compat-wireless-2.6.3X package
> has the right conflicts in its dependencies.
>
> Thoughts?
>
> rtg

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