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.
