-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Sun, Mar 01, 2009 at 01:25:09PM +0100, Frans Pop wrote: >On Sunday 01 March 2009, Jonas Smedegaard wrote: >> >OK. I ran into this because inn2 needs a recommends or suggests on >> >libgd-gd2-(no)xpm-perl and was wondering if both variants should >> >provide a pseudo package (as the regular libs do) to make such a >> >dependency easier. >> >> I decided to not hide behind a virtual or pseudo package, because >> packages depending on GD really needs to decide if XPM support is >> needed or not. > >Well, packages that don't need it can use either of course and having >to define an "|" in that case is somewhat annoying. And you'd have to >specify the "|" as otherwise you could conflict with other packages >that do depend on the xdm variant. > >Packages that _do_ need it would of course have to explicitly depend on >the variant with xdm support.
Indeed. I have the feeling that you find that not just ugly, but possible to do different. Please do elaborate! Even though for this package it most probably irrelevant, multi-flavored packages are not going away, and I am sincerely interesting in your ideas on this (and feel that this bugreport is quite an appropriate place to discuss it, also more generally). - Jonas - -- * Jonas Smedegaard - idealist og Internet-arkitekt * Tlf.: +45 40843136 Website: http://dr.jones.dk/ [x] quote me freely [ ] ask before reusing [ ] keep private -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAkmqhiYACgkQn7DbMsAkQLjeCwCfdpZypGmuoN6WHUkE9nj3W2/7 P7EAnj4QC9T04rrSX8UhD+9k9ABOWy2d =6Fyp -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
