On Fri, Sep 14, 2001 at 06:18:19PM +0200, Ola Lundqvist wrote: > The problem I was talking about was that some packages can > provide and depend on specific jar packages, and maybe with > a specific version of that package. > > So why not just "Provides: foo.jar, bar.jar" and then depend on the > jar files. What do you think about that? Yes we will have a lot of > "virtual packages" but this will also solve some issues.
I haven't thought much about this, but it sounds like you are headed to a "file dependencies" system. File dependencies are often criticised as making RPM-based systems less robust than Debian. I tend to agree, though I'm not currently in a position to argue it. I'm sure you can find references on the Web. Andrew