Re: Release

["Brian C. White" <bcwhite@verisim.com>]

> Actually, I just sent Bruce this email which is a much simpler solution:
> 
> Just have a no-content package (ie - control file only) like this:
> 
> Package: xdependency
> [...]
> 
> It would take 5 minutes to build this, and probably considerably
> longer to recompile and repackage the X stuff.  I think this is a much
> cleaner solution.

While this is a better technical solution than fudging the "provides"
list of X, it has the unfortunate side effect of showing everyone that
installs X that we've had to kludge it.
                                             
                                          Brian
                                 ( bcwhite@verisim.com )
                                             
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