On Mon, Oct 14, 2002 at 05:50:26PM -0600, Joel Baker wrote: > > If you want to specify which of a set of real packages should be the default > > to satisfy a particular dependency on a virtual package, you should list the > > real package as an alternative before the virtual one. > However, as read, this would make little or not sense as to why one cannot > (or even should not) use libc-dev instead of libc*-dev unless you need a > versioned dependancy - since all libc*-dev should Provide: libc-dev, and > there should be exactly one that applies to any given arch, there is no > "preference" that would make any sense for all arches. As a technicality, depending on libc-dev is wrong because there is always *one* *specific* real package that fulfills the proper relationship on each architecture. You cannot substitute a different -dev package for libc6.1 on an alpha and get correct results. Steve Langasek postmodern programmer
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