On Mon, Feb 04, 2002 at 11:35:48PM +0000, Daniel Glassey wrote: > Hullo, > I'm trying to get my package (gnomesword) to depend on aspell for all archs > that it builds on (all except mips and mipsel) and ispell for the others, but > I can't find what the syntax for this would be in policy or anywhere else.
> something like aspell [!mips && !mipsel], ispell [mips, mipsel] > sounds right though that doesn't work > I see other packages such as kate have used ispell | aspell, but what I want > is aspell in preference so that won't work. Then simply reverse the order of the dependency: Depends: aspell | ispell If your package will automatically fall back to using ispell at runtime if aspell is unavailiable, then this is all you need; and unlike other solutions, it will automatically do the Right Thing regardless of the state of individual ports at any point in time. Consider also the possibility of a user who might /prefer/ to use ispell instead of aspell, regardless of which port they're running. Cheers, Steve Langasek postmodern programmer
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