Mike Watters <[email protected]> writes: > Philip Brown wrote: >> On Thu, May 21, 2009 at 12:56:35PM -0500, Mike Watters wrote: >>>> 2. Depends on mail-server/Provides mail-server >>>> 3. Depends on mysql|postgres >>> This is one big thing the current Sun packages are really lacking >>> >> >> But how is that even processable? >> >> if you apt-get [somepackage], and that package >> "depends on mysql|postgres", and neither is installed... >> What happens? >> _______________________________________________ > > If Neither is installed it errors out normally. > if both are install it just installs. > > apt and yum do almost ZERO configuration for users.
They doesn't need to. The configuration is the realm of the package based on system defaults/parameters. This is done in pre/post install scripts. Of course, there are helpful mechanisms such as alternatives, standard configurators, &c. Finally, there are policies enforced by various tools. Speaking as someone that have done, professionally Debian and RedHat packages. -- Peter _______________________________________________ maintainers mailing list [email protected] https://lists.opencsw.org/mailman/listinfo/maintainers
