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>A conflict means that a certain combination of packages
and package features will not work. A number of conflict conditions
can be expressed:</P
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>To state that a package will not work if a certain
predicate is set, use the <TT
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This works for other standard predicates, too.</P
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on package predicates. For example, when package p does not work
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This also works with subpackages (e.g. <TT
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>Note that such error conditions should only be added if there is
absolutely no chance to get the combination of packages and features running.
For example, in the case of multi-threaded programs it is often possible
to add wrappers around unsafe libraries to fix the incompatibility.
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>It is not possible to express incompatibilities between package
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