2008/6/3  <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
>> > How is this any different from the behavior that we have today?  I can
>> > write a package with a dependency on a package that isn't in the
>> > repository. At least in the current code, we don't require that that the
>> > dependent packages be present in the catalog.
>>
>> It is different because the server won't have the information
>> necessary to tell you which package provides the file.
>
> This is true only if you assume that the server has to be able to figure
> this out and that it cannot fail.

Agreed.

> In a previous post you observed that for the case where many or no
> packages are found to match, we should fail.  In such a case, the
> developer who is publishing the package must specify the pkg dependency
> explicitly.

Yes, that was my intent.

Thanks for the clarification.

-- 
Shawn Walker
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