Shaleh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I am packaging imlib (image lib). It can use giflib which is > non-free. I would like to make a ver that does and one that does > not. Suggestions on how to do this?? Virtual package? A super and > a minor package (one provides/overrides other)???
I'd suggest an `imlib-free' and `imlib-nonfree', which Conflicts: and Replaces: each other and provide the virtual package `imlib'. The shlibs file of each library would point to `imlib'. `svgalib' & `svgalib-dummy' do something similar and the Conflicts: & Replaces: mechanism works well there. By having things depend on a virtual package `imlib' you have things much easier than the complex dependency mess svgalib* has. HTH -- James
