Charles R. Anderson wrote: > installonly packages are already well understood by depsolvers. Look > at the kernel packages. True, but we would need something which can be set in the package itself. It looks like something unofficial is already used by Red Hat : if other packages depend on the old library, provide it in a different package containing the library's soname. For example, libpng and libpng10. Aurélien -- http://gauret.free.fr ~~~~ Jabber : gauret@xxxxxxxxxxxxx "Really, I'm not out to destroy Microsoft. That will just be a completely unintentional side effect." -- Linus Torvalds