Re: source dependencies : virtual names
On Jul 23, Andreas Jellinghaus wrote
> what about only using virtual names for al libraries :
> name used package
> libc-dev libc6-dev
> ncurses-dev ncurses3.4-dev
> libtiff-dev libtiff3-dev
> ...
>
>
> it's not a hard thing to manage such a list, but we gain flexibility
> with handling of new versions.
>
> comments ?
Many of those packages, you will find, already provide and conflict
with the names you suggested. That is to make sure that there is only
ever one copy of a -dev package is ever installed at once.
Mike.
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