On Sun, Jan 31, 2010 at 20:11, Brendan Long <korin43@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > The difference between replaced and renamed is significant though. > There's no reason not to replace kernel-headers with linux-api-headers, > but there are some other packages (cdrtools vs cdrkit comes to mind) > that would give the same message but have a very different effect. Just > my 2 cents. > > -Brendan Long > The difference is that replaces was never meant for alternate software choices, it was meant for things like gaim->pidgin for example.
