Hi, Stefano Zacchiroli: > On Fri, Oct 04, 2002 at 09:12:52AM +0200, Matthias Urlichs wrote: > > I'd split the packages in three: > > - ocaml (arch-independent, common stuff) > > - ocaml-bytecode (ditto, bytecode interpreter) > > - ocaml-native (arch-dependent, compiles to native code) > > You miss the point: the ocaml package is already split properly, the > question arise for application builts with ocaml compilers. > Oh. *scratches head, re-reads initial email* I did not see that, given this email. Sorry.
Anyway, the same three-way split technique can be used for any package using ocaml => take my email and s/ocaml/your-package/g. As for the user's choice ... I did miss the reference to apt-get in the original email, as I was mistakenly of the opinion that it would, like dselect, actually ask which dependent package to install if there's a choice. At the moment the manpage says that apt-get randomly selects a package which fulfills a virtual dependency. (That probably means "it uses the first one it sees in the package list". :-/ ) That shold be fixed; as .deb control files currently don't have a priority field, the first step would probably be to file a bug report^W^W feature request asking for its addition. Or do it yourself and submit a patch... -- Matthias Urlichs | noris network AG | http://smurf.noris.de/
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