From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 62441 invoked by alias); 16 Nov 2017 19:53:06 -0000 Mailing-List: contact cygwin-apps-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk Sender: cygwin-apps-owner@cygwin.com List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Mail-Followup-To: cygwin-apps@cygwin.com Received: (qmail 62426 invoked by uid 89); 16 Nov 2017 19:53:05 -0000 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Virus-Found: No X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=-1.2 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,KAM_NUMSUBJECT,KB_WAM_FROM_NAME_SINGLEWORD,SPF_PASS autolearn=no version=3.3.2 spammy=itp, ITP, Hx-spam-relays-external:ESMTPA X-HELO: vsmx009.vodafonemail.xion.oxcs.net Received: from vsmx009.vodafonemail.xion.oxcs.net (HELO vsmx009.vodafonemail.xion.oxcs.net) (153.92.174.87) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.93/v0.84-503-g423c35a) with ESMTP; Thu, 16 Nov 2017 19:53:04 +0000 Received: from vsmx001.vodafonemail.xion.oxcs.net (unknown [192.168.75.191]) by mta-5-out.mta.xion.oxcs.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5E807C3730 for ; Thu, 16 Nov 2017 19:53:02 +0000 (UTC) Received: from Gertrud (unknown [87.185.219.5]) by mta-5-out.mta.xion.oxcs.net (Postfix) with ESMTPA id 2A29030067E for ; Thu, 16 Nov 2017 19:53:00 +0000 (UTC) From: Achim Gratz To: cygwin-apps@cygwin.com Subject: Re: [ITP] moreutils 0.61 References: <20171115131044.GJ20681@dinwoodie.org> <87tvxvfl74.fsf@Rainer.invalid> <20171115204316.GK20681@dinwoodie.org> <20171116150816.GL20681@dinwoodie.org> <99f2b651-e7d0-b443-f4ee-ba966d556374@tiscali.co.uk> Date: Thu, 16 Nov 2017 19:53:00 -0000 In-Reply-To: <99f2b651-e7d0-b443-f4ee-ba966d556374@tiscali.co.uk> (David Stacey's message of "Thu, 16 Nov 2017 16:34:14 +0000") Message-ID: <87wp2qhug4.fsf@Rainer.invalid> User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/25.3 (gnu/linux) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-VADE-STATUS: LEGIT X-SW-Source: 2017-11/txt/msg00068.txt.bz2 David Stacey writes: >> It looks like both OS X's Homebrew and Debian's Apt deal with this by >> just having the packages conflict. > > Several other distros do likewise: Fedora / CentOS, openSUSE, > Slackware, Ubuntu. These all have package managers that will tell you about the conflict when you try to install the second one of these. Some even have (at least in principle) the ability to make the two packages mutually exclusive. Regards, Achim. -- +<[Q+ Matrix-12 WAVE#46+305 Neuron microQkb Andromeda XTk Blofeld]>+ Waldorf MIDI Implementation & additional documentation: http://Synth.Stromeko.net/Downloads.html#WaldorfDocs