Looks great, Louis! My immediate thoughts: - This does have the potential to complicating pinning quite a lot, which needs to be balanced against the better upgrade messages. Do you think this will need a package selection priority the way that apt-pinning in Debian works (e.g. so that ocaml-tls can be selected ahead of openssl-tls for the TLS package).
- The forking and providing replacements would be really useful for Mirage, where we're having an active discussion about how to provide Xen-specific versions of certain packages such as Zarith. Thomas (with any surname), opinions on this? - How much damage will this do to the internal solver heuristics? -anil > On 5 Jan 2015, at 08:36, Louis Gesbert <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi all, and happy new year ! > > I just added to opam a design proposal to open discussion on the > implementation of the 'provides' field and its use-cases. > > It's at https://github.com/ocaml/opam/blob/master/doc/design/provides.md > > Cheers, > Louis > _______________________________________________ > opam-devel mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.ocaml.org/listinfo/opam-devel > _______________________________________________ opam-devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.ocaml.org/listinfo/opam-devel
