Re: Complex Depends

2005-03-30 Thread Nicolas Boullis
Hi, On Tue, Mar 29, 2005 at 08:21:35PM +0200, Shachar Shemesh wrote: > An idea I have been harboring for quite some time, and which bears some > (though not very much) relevance to this thread, is a reverse > dependency. The idea is this: > Package "wine" has wine. > Package "kde" has kde. > Pac

Re: Complex Depends

2005-03-29 Thread Shachar Shemesh
Nicolas Boullis wrote: Wow... It would really be nice to enhance the syntax for dependencies... An idea I have been harboring for quite some time, and which bears some (though not very much) relevance to this thread, is a reverse dependency. The idea is this: Package "wine" has wine. Package "

Re: Complex Depends

2005-03-29 Thread Nicolas Boullis
Hi, On Mon, Mar 28, 2005 at 09:37:07AM -0700, David Everly wrote: >Depends: (package-a,package-1,package-2) | (package-b,package-3) As far as I remember boolean algebra, (a and b and c) or (d and e) is equivalent to (a or d) and (a or e) and (b or d) and (b or e) and (c or d) and (c or e). Th

Re: Complex Depends

2005-03-29 Thread David Everly
On Tue, Mar 29, 2005 at 12:22:39AM -0600, David Moreno Garza wrote: > On Mon, 2005-03-28 at 09:37 -0700, David Everly wrote: > > Hello Debian Mentors, > > > > How do I construct a "Depends" line in debian/control for the following > > example: > > > >Require package-a or package-b. > > > >

Re: Complex Depends

2005-03-28 Thread David Moreno Garza
On Mon, 2005-03-28 at 09:37 -0700, David Everly wrote: > Hello Debian Mentors, > > How do I construct a "Depends" line in debian/control for the following > example: > >Require package-a or package-b. > >If package-a is selected, require package-1 and package-2. > >If package-b is s

Complex Depends

2005-03-28 Thread David Everly
Hello Debian Mentors, How do I construct a "Depends" line in debian/control for the following example: Require package-a or package-b. If package-a is selected, require package-1 and package-2. If package-b is selected, require package-3. Notes: package-a, package-b, package-1, pa

Re: Describing complex Depends - How?

2000-06-05 Thread Richard Braakman
On Tue, Jun 06, 2000 at 12:10:42AM +0100, Julian Gilbey wrote: > On Mon, Jun 05, 2000 at 03:54:44PM -0700, Sudhakar Chandra wrote: > > How do I specify a dependancy like "depends on libfoo >= 0.1.18 but <= > > 0.1.25)? > > Depends: libfoo (>= 0.1.18), libfoo (<= 0.1.25) Note that it is rarely a g

Re: Describing complex Depends - How?

2000-06-05 Thread Julian Gilbey
On Mon, Jun 05, 2000 at 03:54:44PM -0700, Sudhakar Chandra wrote: > How do I specify a dependancy like "depends on libfoo >= 0.1.18 but <= > 0.1.25)? Depends: libfoo (>= 0.1.18), libfoo (<= 0.1.25) Julian -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Ju

Describing complex Depends - How?

2000-06-05 Thread Sudhakar Chandra
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