On Sun, 4 Jan 2004, Rene Hexel wrote:
>    Okay, what about this: add a new INCOMPATIBLE_WITH (better
> names welcome) entry that is stored in binary packages.
> This entry lists the version number(s) of the same package
> it is incompatible with.  E.g., for tiff-3.6.1 we can set
>
> INCOMPATIBLE_WITH=		tiff<3.6.1
>
>    Binary packages compiled against anything before tiff-3.6.1
> will then not install against tiff-3.6.1, even though their
> dependencies might, for example, be tiff>=3.5.5
...
>    Thoughts?  Comments?  Flames?

Sounds interesting...

Can you describe the scenario where that would hit with (say) tiff and
xpaint?


 - Hubert

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Hubert Feyrer <hubert@feyrer.de>