Florian Weimer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Thomas Bushnell, BSG) writes:
>
> > It's clear to me we need a virtual package for "pgp implementation"
> > that both pgp and gnupg can provide.
>
> Uh, this doesn't work. Even the PGP releases aren't completely
> compatible among themselves, and GnuPG has got a completely different
> command line interface.
>
> This makes as much sense as a virutal package "scripting language"
> which is provided by Python, Perle, Guile, and others.
In order to have a virtual package, there is absolutely no need that
the various packages that provide it have compatible or even remotely
similar interfaces.
Consider, for example, the "editor" virtual package.
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