-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 11.08.2011 19:04, Torquil Macdonald Sørensen wrote: > I wish I could do something as simple as > Depends: > > python-wxgtk2.8 | (python-qt4, python-qt4-gl) | python-fltk | > (python-gtk2, gtkglext1)
I'm pretty sure someone suggested such a syntax already once. > Perhaps I'll just force the user to install the WX frontend, and list > the all others as suggested packages... Don't do that. Its wrong in several ways. Suggests does not declare alternatives but enhance functionality (policy § 7.2). In your case its a dependency, even if satisfied by another package. Given that, you don't "enhance" anything by installing your suggested packages. Moreover you possibly force your users to install a hard dependency even though it would be perfectly valid to have only one of the suggested alternatives installed. Use jwilk's suggestion, being ugly or not its the correct one. - -- with kind regards, Arno Töll IRC: daemonkeeper on Freenode/OFTC GnuPG Key-ID: 0x9D80F36D -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.11 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iQIcBAEBAgAGBQJORBQgAAoJEMcrUe6dgPNtOLgQAMRcf4zf3xf3hF/sKWs8uEME V9uSgtz/gqB+NZROFaslkCtpFmxRAtxNf+lv8ad3abj+LeeUlmEe5rtCt75lXUOQ V8U2SdVK9+byoa/4akOdIRuk201gdA23o3OiPLNCAIl8L2iPd5lM06kjERuCCLd3 vfIWknDZmc+zjOVMrnx3MVO3l9C1qgCoJvSoFl8rmix5NICrHTmO1c3Iu2yj30ID vFOdMRZWJ3QdG6YlJLbkKeArvRsz1E57xPwl6YYzcPeNX/fTshBBBZyUtdh0TJCM pw/x2mI50qw9NRg0iJyGGEGZ/tkRr/jZdmmwXgu8ZI4J2hKskMS6oBitY0W3NDKi cgyOwfbeOTsWQC/C+WHxMSDWE0FJ7n4celzLhycenuejTvqcDpg3taQMlafMzJHA 8BuINoVpkbKQmuU/xS2E1mEW9QNZFoJYx7og2j27YJjR2KQcg9JyEF07DokVNj1E /q/6lb13CuuZ0r2idgE7RqapQE9nke0cK6AnPAlKT42ZNpsvXb1Z3fxNIpPVd4ZS APgh2raakjIpcwlhWBK0cyYwN8Q9D8T70RBcYbDRhjOshC0Zn8DPJ8F9vnZ7x7pc 5YY3hbJDvlRLOc7Hbxwa3bPk2ERJTDn2pJ8xZPdMZth6HZsEyBoNGzRCPgSpaYBL cceqn2hI+tJV+K3m6mRD =sCzl -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentors-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/4e441420.5050...@toell.net