Re: APT broken ?
On Sun, 5 Apr 1998, Fabien Ninoles wrote:
> IMHO, the only thing missing in the debian schemes is a special
> `Provides: <package> (=version)' who can resolved dependencies with
> version (notes that only the equal sign is meaningful here and
> <package> should be a real package name, not a virtual one). This is a
> lot of complex changes but will open Debian to a world of possibility
> (especially new parallel distributions and more configurability).
APT fully supports versioned provides, but does not parse the information
out of the Package description files (no agree upon format, no dpkg
support). Someday it might get enabled.
Jason
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