xerces-c eternally upgraded

[mimosa]

Every time I run slapt-get --upgrade it does this:

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Preparing to replace xerces-c-2.8.0-i486-5_nhh with xerces-c-2.8.0-i486-1gv
Reinstalling package xerces-c-2.8.0-i486-1gv...

No great matter, but unexpected, so I thought I'd report it.

[gapan]

That's not a bug. Where did you get the xerces-c-2.8.0-i486-5_nhh ? You put it there somehow, so don't complain about it.
What does ls /var/log/packages/xerces* tell you?

Moving to problems section.

[mimosa]

It tells me that both packages are there. And I remember now - when I was helping someone install a slackbuild with a lot of deps, I got xerces from the site of Niels Horn, who makes packages for Slackware. I must then also have installed it from Salix repos where it was all along.

However, shouldn't it be called xerxes, with two 'x's? As in "burning your boats" (not "bridges")?

Also, it's *not* a problem, just a puzzle - at least assuming there's nothing wrong with that package. Perhaps I should have posted it in Misc?

[gapan]

However, shouldn't it be called xerxes, with two 'x's? As in "burning your boats" (not "bridges")?

The package's name is xerces-c. That how it's devs named it.

Also, it's *not* a problem, just a puzzle - at least assuming there's nothing wrong with that package. Perhaps I should have posted it in Misc?

Just remove the offending package.

[mimosa]

Duckduckgo tells me that in French, the Persian king's name is spelled like that - or used to be.

The alternative would be to blacklist it and keep the other one