On Mon, Feb 14, 2005 at 01:01:15PM +0100, Steinar H. Gunderson wrote: > On Mon, Feb 14, 2005 at 11:43:41AM +0000, Colin Watson wrote: > > Well, if any program were to actually depend on this virtual package, > > they'd need to know which encoder was being used in order to correctly > > support the differing argument conventions. In which case, why not just > > depend on the encoders they know how to support, which is presumably a > > finite list? > > One could of course make a standardized shell wrapper for all the packages.
In that case, one would simply depend on that, and the shell wrapper would depend on an |-ed list of the encoders it understood. I still don't see that the virtual package could be useful. -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
