On Friday, February 1, 2002, at 07:19 , Max Horn wrote: > That sums it up pretty well, indeed. > > The only potentially trouble spot is that the order in which (in your > example) db3 and db4 are installed affects to which the db.dylib > symlink points. If a package has to link against a particular version, > that could generate problems. Alas, in such cases, the package could > possibly be modified to use the correct version directly instead.
We do so much modifying anyway that this could not be to hard. Another option would be to detect stuff like that and ask the user which version they prefer, though that would be a lot of work. > You don't want to build a package twice only to be able to split it > into two disjoint .debs. Maybe we could add some feature that allows to > create both "variants" (although variants is not quite the correct term > here) in one build. I think that this type of feature should be added when we get a more powerful info format created (Ex. XML) as it would require some of the complexities of that format. > Note that package variants are strictly spoken completly orthogonal to > this. Agreed, though implementation should be done at about the same time, since both require XML or some derivative. > > Max Kyle Moffett _______________________________________________ Fink-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-devel
