On Tue, Jun 03, 2008 at 02:47:15PM -0500, Nicolas Williams wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 04, 2008 at 12:42:47AM +0530, Venky wrote:
> > > > However, one problem with this is that it creates a situation where
> > > > you are publishing a package that depends on a file in a package that
> > > > hasn't been published yet.
> > > 
> > > fail.
> > 
> > Not really.  If I am hosting a repository which provides the "mutt"
> > package, I would rather not be forced to host "sendmail" or
> > "postfix" also.
> 
> We're talking about when the file dependency is resolved to a package
> dependency, which would at package publication time.  See the rest of
> the thread.

Err.. no.  Dependencies need to be resolved at installation time.
It does not matter if they are file-based or package-based.

Venky.

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