Re: Differing lists of packages?

[Martijn van Oosterhout <kleptog@cupid.suninternet.com>]

James A. Treacy wrote:
> 
> The web pages update finishes about one hour after the archive.

An hour after? Well, it seems to be fixed now, whatever I was seeing.

> You are correct, there is no package libgl1. Note that it was referred to
> as a virtual dependency (usually called a virtual package). Virtual
> packages are easiest explained by an example. A lot of packages provide
> a web browser. Instead of having to keep a long, constantly changing, list
> packages simply depend on web-browser. Any package supplying a web browser
> will 'Provides: web-browser' and thus satisfy the dependency. This same
> mechanism is use for package supplying the OpenGL api. The virtual package
> is libgl1.

I know about virtual packages. I checked yesterday and I saw no
Provides: libgl1 anywhere. However, I've checked now and it's there.

Now just have to file bugs against quake-3dfx, quake-gl and flwm to
point to it.

Martijn