Re: Multiple provides

2002-11-29 Thread Martin Sjögren
fre 2002-11-29 klockan 22.33 skrev Tollef Fog Heen: > as I've said on irc before: I think it's prettier to make anna able > to configure packages (through libd-i?) than hacks like this, though > it's not pretty, I agree. A problem I see with that is that this solves the immediate problem with ann

Re: Multiple provides

2002-11-29 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
* Martin Sjögren | One solution is to remove anna from the menu, and instead put several | "annas" there :) One per retriever, to be exact. XYZ-anna would depend | on XYZ-retriever and anna. The XYZ-anna postinst would be something like [...] | Comments anyone? joeyh? Tollef? as I've said on i

Multiple provides

2002-11-29 Thread Martin Sjögren
aj and I talked a bit about resolving multiple provides on IRC today. The problem isn't which provider to configure, but how to make the choice user-friendly. Take, for example, the case of anna and retrievers. The user-friendly question is asked by anna to determine which retriever to use