On Sun, Mar 07, 2004 at 10:11:10PM +0100, Marc Haber wrote: > Can't this be solved with a local, equivs-created package with > appropriate depends and conflicts clauses? That package could be on a > locally aptable archive, which would also - in cooperation with > cron-apt - serve as means of distribution.
Well, you don't get the `automatically remove cruft' part (which I consider one of the most important features :-) ), and you don't get the ease of a simple text file to edit. In addition, you lose a lot of the power you can get from combining pkgsync and cfengine (different classes of machines could have different packages instaleld, for instance). Apart from that; yes, you can do it that way if you want to, but that is not how pkgsync is implemented ATM. /* Steinar */ -- Homepage: http://www.sesse.net/
