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s/conflicting packages/other packages/ #149

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@jwilk jwilk commented Oct 14, 2022

The term "conflicting packages" is inaccurate, because with the alternatives system, multiple packages can provide the same man page without conflicting with each other.

The term "conflicting packages" is inaccurate, because with the
alternatives system, multiple packages can provide the same man page
without conflicting with each other.
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You’re right in that the packages don’t conflict with each other at the Debian package level, but from a logical perspective (detached from any technical details), there still is a conflict: there are multiple manual pages for the same name.

I don’t mind changing the terminology to be more descriptive, but at the same time, I’m not convinced that switching from “conflicting” to “other” is an improvement: “other” isn’t describing anything at all. As a reader, I can ask “sure, it’s another package, but what’s the relationship?”

I’m inclined to leave it as “conflicting”

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