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Rafael Laboissiere Rafael Laboissiere <rafael@debian.org>
Sat, 7 May 2005 09:59:14 +0200


* Jörg Sommer <joerg@alea.gnuu.de> [2005-05-05 22:55]:

> G. Milde schrieb am Wed 04. May, 11:31 (+0200) :
> > Only if we put it in jed-common. Why not in jed|xjed|fljed (or do I miss
> > something here)?
> 
> Then its impossible to install more than one of these packages, because
> all provide the same file. And policy forces to make the packages
> conflict each other.

Not necessarily.  We could use the alternatives mechanism, see:

    http://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ap-pkg-alternatives.html

-- 
Rafael