On Friday 21 November 2003 07:57, seth vidal wrote: > - make packages providing kernel-modules be installed only not updated How does that work exactly? Are any provides starting with 'kernel-module' matched while this decision is made? What about a global configuration option that lists all packages (resp. their provides) which are allowed to be installed more than once? 'kernel' and 'kernel-modules' might then be hard-wired defaults. Thomas