Re: New required base packages for Amiga, Atari, ... detection
rnhodek@faui22c.informatik.uni-erlangen.de (Roman Hodek) wrote on 22.12.97 in <[🔎] 199712221032.KAA06306@faui21.informatik.uni-erlangen.de>:
> > As in, ISA vs. MCA vs. PCI? :-)
>
> No, as in e.g. Intel-PC vs. Sun :-)
Hardly. That would be a case of incompatible CPUs. Or does Sun produce x86
machines these days? Nothing is impossible ...
> Ok, you're right that we could leave the user on his own and tell him
> "just don't install packages you can't make any use of", but I think
> we can do it better... Aren't dependencies exactly for that purpose?
I don't think so. Dependencies are for cases where package A depends on
package B. Not for hardware dependencies.
i386 packages don't differ from alpha packages by dependency.
> I.e., keep the user installing e.g. a libc6 package without having
> libc6? Sorry for the bit of sarcasm :-)
See above.
Dependencies are for inter-package relations.
Architecture is for CPU dependencies.
We don't have any other hardware related mechanism, and I really don't
think we need one.
MfG Kai
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