libknotifyconfig4 or something around kde4 in conflict with xfce4-notifyd

[phanyx]

Hello,

in Ubuntu 10.10 (and derivatives) I can't have xfce4-notifyd and a KDE application both installed.

In my case, I want to have k3b, krusader and xfce4-notifyd installed, but when I try to install the former, apt wants to remove xfce4-notifyd. Clearly these applications are in deb-conflict. I wonder why is that? The conflict doesn't exist with gnome's notify-osd, so why I can't use the xfce4-notifyd?

This problem doesn't exist in Ubuntu 10.04 (and derivatives), which is particularly painful just after a dist-upgrade, when you find, that your favourite apps suddenly can't coexist.

Regards,
phan

PS. Affects both x86 and x64 archs

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.10
Package: libknotifyconfig4 (not installed)
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.35-22.33-generic 2.6.35.4
Uname: Linux 2.6.35-22-generic x86_64
Architecture: amd64
Date: Thu Mar 3 11:36:15 2011
LiveMediaBuild: Xubuntu 10.10 "Maverick Meerkat" - Release amd64 (20101008.1)
ProcEnviron:
 LANG=pl_PL.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: kde4libs

[Jonathan Thomas (echidnaman)]

xfce4-notifyd conflicts with notification-daemon, a virtual package which kdebase-runtime provides.

[Lionel Le Folgoc (mrpouit)]

Xfce4-notifyd conflicts with notification-daemon, and this is correct (they both provide the same file and the same features).

[Harald Sitter (apachelogger)]

That was Jonathan's point.
If xfce4-notifyd provides the same functionality as notification-daemon to the API consuming application then it must replace&conflict the virtual package notification-daemon thus making xfce4-notifyd the present implementation of notification-daemon (of course for all sorts of reasons no conflict but runtime selection makes a bazillion times more sense).

[Lionel Le Folgoc (mrpouit)]

Sigh, no reason to reassign it to xfce4-notifyd then...