Re: package system: questions, suggestions, alien

ville> Another idea; when package A does not _require_ package B, but having B ville> around would bring in some extra goodies to A's functionality; a ville> RECOMMENDS feature could help. Again, maybe versioned as said above. ville> There's already some discussion about this in [3]. Oh, and then a ville> (versioned?) CONFLICTS relation between packages that don't coexist ville> nicely... Up to here sounds good. However, CONFLICTS is tricky. What one would desire is for CONFLICT to prevent or warn about packages being required w/o others being unloaded, or some to that effect, since different peopls could want different sets of packages (or same user, at different times under different tasks).