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[alvaro <aepaz AT entelchile.net>]

On Monday 23 September 2002 15:49, Jon Svendsen wrote:
> On Mon, 2002-09-23 at 13:14, alvaro wrote:
> > I dont think this qualifies as a bug, since the xchat spell isnt there
> > anymore... but yet, why does dispelling xchat2, and casting xchat would
> > mess things so much?, libraries are supposed to be compatible.
>
> The problem here is that xchat and gnomexmms depends (perhaps
> optionally) on gnome-core, which is a gnome-1.4 package. This package
> was split up into gnome-session, gnome-desktop, gnome-panel and
> gnome-terminal in gnome-2.0. So each of these new packages conflict with
> gnome-core, and gnome-core conflicts with all of the new ones.
>
> So what happened is that when you 'cast xchat', the gnome-core
> dependency was invoked, and the new packages were removed.
>
> Doing a 'gaze depends gnome-core' will give you a list of the packages
> that you've got installed that might cause trouble.

thanks jon, everything is clear now.
depending on gnome-core: WindowMaker, xmms, gnome-python.
So i have to dispel gnome-core, cast -r xmms et al, and recast 
session/desktop/panel.

>
> I'm sorry about these problems, they're a bit hard to avoid with our
> current conflicts code.

Please, dont apologize!. 
thanks for your help, and for all your (great) work!

alvaro