Re: An interesting dependancy problem
On Sun, Apr 12, 1998 at 02:03:50PM -0400, Brian White wrote:
> It is policy that package that depend on non-free packages must go into
> contrib. However, what if a package depends on a virtual package that
> is only provided by packages outside of "main"?
Virtual packages are just a short-hand notation of "package1 | package2 |
... | packageN", where package* are existant packages that happen to provide
certain functionality. This is how we should see virtual packages for this
kind of issues.
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