Just a reminder to everyone about how to depend on virtual packages. I
thought this knowledge was widespread, but I recently ran up against this
problem in one of our core packages.
When your package Depends upon or Recommends a pure-virtual package P, you
should always OR the dependency w
On Thu, 2 Dec 2004 20:33:00 -0500, Daniel Burrows <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Depends: mail-transport-agent
>
> Instead, you should write something like this:
>
> Depends: exim4 | mail-transport-agent
Oh.
So, you are saying that all we need to do is cross reference all the
co-dependencies
On Thursday 02 December 2004 09:07 pm, Chasecreek Systemhouse wrote:
> So, you are saying that all we need to do is cross reference all the
> co-dependencies for package or dselect scenario X?
I don't understand your question.
If you have a dependency on a pure virtual package, it should be p
On Thu, 2 Dec 2004 21:18:12 -0500, Daniel Burrows <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I don't understand what this has to do with Gnome or anything I said.
Maybe its just me -- but your statement about selecting a preferred
package over any old package that provides [insert whatever] to
satisfy a depen
Chasecreek Systemhouse <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> schrieb:
> On Thu, 2 Dec 2004 21:18:12 -0500, Daniel Burrows <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> I don't understand what this has to do with Gnome or anything I said.
>
> Maybe its just me -- but your statement about selecting a preferred
> package over any o
Chasecreek Systemhouse <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> On Thu, 2 Dec 2004 21:18:12 -0500, Daniel Burrows <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> I don't understand what this has to do with Gnome or anything I said.
>
> Maybe its just me -- but your statement about selecting a preferred
> package over any ol
Daniel Burrows debian.org> writes:
> When your package Depends upon or Recommends a pure-virtual package P, you
> should always OR the dependency with a dependency on something that provides
> P,
As a totally offtopic suggestion, how come APT doesn't handle virtual packages
the way Fink does,
On Tue, Dec 07, 2004 at 09:45:33PM +, Ari Pollak wrote:
> Daniel Burrows debian.org> writes:
> > When your package Depends upon or Recommends a pure-virtual package P,
> > you
> > should always OR the dependency with a dependency on something that
> > provides
> > P,
> As a totally offt
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