I am not sure I agree with you. En lieu of the vision that there will  
be many independant repos, I rather think that we have to find a way  
of not needing to
put a dependancy of a particular package, but rather on something the  
package provides.

Just my 2c EUR

cheers

Michal

On Jun 3, 2008, at 12:00 PM, Alexander Vlasov wrote:

> Hello,
>
> dependency on file is TERRIBLY wrong idea. Anyone who maintained big
> enough set of RPM-based linuxes can confirm this.
>
> Alan Coopersmith wrote:
>> When an ELF object links against a shared library, pkg determines
>> which package that library is in and adds the dependency  
>> automatically.
>>
>> Is there a way to specify in distro-import or elsewhere a file that
>> a package depends on in way that pkg can't detect (such as a system()
>> or popen() call)?
>>
>> (This is in response to the comments in
>> http://defect.opensolaris.org/bz/show_bug.cgi?id=1781 about the
>> dependency and the possibility of the package name changing - which
>> we know will happen when the pkg rename/refactoring occurs.)
>>
>>
>
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