Re: Leland Olds -- Re: lynx

["Owen S. Dunn" <osd1000@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk>]

On Sat, 16 Mar 1996, James A. Robinson wrote:

> 
> Leland did not send this to debian-devel, but asked me to forward it.
> 
> ------- Forwarded Message
> 
> A graphical-browser does not imply java-support, and html-forms-support
> does not imply a graphical-browser.
> 
> I'm not up on the "virtual package" business, so forgive my ignorance
> and abuse of keywords, but can you do something like the following, and
> have packages depend on a www-browser with java-applet-support?
> 
> netscape 2.01
>  Provides: www-browser
>  Provides: java-applet-support
>  Provides: html-forms-support
> 
> lynx
>  Provides: www-browser
>  Provides: html-forms-support
> 
> arena
>  Provides: www-browser

I don't think this is the way to go; following this example we could
end up with a virtual package for every individual feature a program
has...

Owen
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