I completely agree with this, I don't think two pkgs should have the same pkg in it, could end up with bad problems, specially in the bindist...I suppose this is more of a pkg bug..
There are other packages that do this. python has python21, python22, and python23 as parents. IIRC one of the reasons for introducing this was that you could not have versioned dependencies on virtual packages (you can now, can't you?).
Another is probably that parts of the shlibs policy are not contradiction-free. It is not clear how to deal with version-dependent files that don't have version-dependent names. As we have seen in the libpng/libpng3 disaster, there is no solution for this problem.
-- Martin
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