On 23 Sep 2004, at 2:31, Daniel Macks wrote:
On Wed, Sep 22, 2004 at 11:00:39PM +1000, Jeremy Higgs wrote:
I'm trying to update some of my packages to use variants, and one of these is pygtk. As it exists now, there is a -py22 version and a -py23 version, for the respective versions of Python. There's also a placeholder pygtk package that depends on either the -py22 version or the -py23 version. (It's of type: bundle.)
I'm trying to combine this all into one package... Is there a way to
only offer the pygtk-py22 and pygtk-py23 variants, and not a base pygtk
package?
That's probably the best approach. There are very few times when having an language-unversioned bundle for a library is useful. OTOH, if you're going to abolish a package, look through the current dists for anything that depends on it, as all of these will need to be updated. This also givs you an opportunity to see if the thing really is needed...maybe someone uses it when an actual -pyXX variant would be more correct, so you wind up improving other pkgs along the way.
Alrighty. Thanks for the help, David and Dan.
I don't think I made it clear in my original email, but what I was attempting to also ask is if I can provide the pygtk-py23 and pygtk-py22 variants from the same package description file, but not allow the straight pygtk package to be installed? (i.e. pygtk-py22 and pygtk-py23 are valid packages, but pygtk isn't *actually* an available package)... if that makes any sense.
Thanks!
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