On Fri, Jul 06, 2012 at 11:01:33AM -0400, Éric Araujo wrote:
> Hi,
>
> >Hopefully this will be a more useful spec.
> Thanks for the proposal, but it is not really a spec. You’re
> suggesting name and syntax for a new field, but you don’t describe
> what it means and what it is used for. From what I understand, the
> goal is similar to build dependencies and optional dependencies in
> systems like Debian’s dpkg;
You can also think of extras as similar to Debian's metapackages. For
example, looking at the zope.component packaging:
http://packages.debian.org/source/sid/zope.component
The zope.component [zcml] extra is translated to metapackage
(python-zope.component-zcml) that depends on python-zope.component and
python-zope.configuration.
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Brian Sutherland
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