"not" deps don't really do what you want them to do

Hi all, I was hoping to get PEAR 1.4.0 out before anyone actually needed to do what DB_DataObject 1.7.3 needs to do, but alas... The "not" dependency is intended to completely exclude a package, and is implemented as <conflicts/> in package.xml 2.0 An oversight by the first designers of package.xml did not include the "ne" dependency, which is what is needed in order to implement excluding a particular package version. I have absolutely no capability to do a release of PEAR 1.3.4 right now, but I will add "ne" to the list of deps and make sure the packager doesn't do stupid crap like allow an invalid package to be packaged. Until then, I would suggest to Alan that he pull 1.7.3 and call it a new year's present when the release is possible :). Greg P.S. I've opened http://pear.php.net/bugs/3026 for this issue