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> What data are you using for the "Conflicts are rare" statement? |
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> Using |
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> http://http.us.debian.org/debian/dists/testing/main/binary-i386/Packages |
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> I get: |
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> |
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> [jnelson@agamemnon jnelson]$ grep "Package: " Packages | wc -l |
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> 6669 |
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> [jnelson@agamemnon jnelson]$ grep "Conflicts: " Packages | wc -l |
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> 1637 |
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> [jnelson@agamemnon jnelson]$ grep "Replaces: " Packages | wc -l |
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> 1265 |
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> [jnelson@agamemnon jnelson]$ grep "Provides: " Packages | wc -l |
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> 923 |
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Admittedly, my data was apocryphal. I've seen very few complaints |
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about conflicting packages on either #gentoo or gentoo-dev. The |
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example you gave was a package conflicting with a previous version of |
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itself, which strikes me as being a bit artificial, but you may well |
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have a good point. *Shrug* I'll go back to being agnostic on the |
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issue. |
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-g2boojum- |
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| Grant Goodyear | The Secrets of Physics: | |
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| Dept. of Chemistry - Clemson U |1. Add zero. | |
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| Clemson, SC 29634 |2. Multiply by one. | |
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|-------------------------------------|3. Expand in a Taylor series| |
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|e-mail: goodyea@×××××××.edu |4. Integrate by parts. | |
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|www:bernacchi.chem.uh.edu/~grant |5. Fourier transform. | |
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| |6. Add auxiliary variables | |
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