On Fri, 24 Sep 1999, Josip Rodin wrote: > On Fri, Sep 24, 1999 at 01:32:29PM +0000, Dale Scheetz wrote: > > So, why are there packages with depends lines that include both perl5 and > > a particular version, like perl-5.005? > > When a package depends on a virtual package which is provided by multiple > real packages, but none of these are already installed (hint: new > installation of the whole system), APT and dselect will be confused and not > know what to do, because they can't just make a guess and install a package > when several equal (to them) options are present. [1] [...]
I thought at least dselect does make a guess, but I may be wrong. Anyway, a default is provided by lines like "Depends: perl-5.005 | perl5". In contrast, "Depends: perl-5.005, perl5" should be equivalent to "Depends: perl-5.005" (except perhaps for some trickeries involving Conflicts: / Replaces: ). Bj"orn Brill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Frankfurt am Main, Germany
