On Mon, Feb 19, 2001 at 11:43:50AM -0800, Joseph Carter wrote: > On Mon, Feb 19, 2001 at 01:21:53PM +0100, David N. Welton wrote: > > > > Anyone use the 'epic' package and not 'epic4'? > > > > > Probably not. =) > > > > Well if no one uses it, why should we keep it? > > The provides is a bad idea. Dropping epic3 or not is a seperate issue, > but if you drop it epic4 should not have Provides: epic. Results[1] from the Popularity Contest[2] for epic (of 1096 computers that voted): Package Vote Old Recent Unknown ------------------------------------------------------- epic 13 109 7 0 So, it looks like some people actually use it. Granted, it doesn't look like anyone is beating down the doors to use it. ;-) Given that epic scripts are compatible with ircII 2.8 and epic4 scripts are not. I think Joseph is right, and I retract my suggestion to have a "Provides: epic". References 1. http://people.debian.org/~apenwarr/popcon/results.net.html 2. http://people.debian.org/~apenwarr/popcon/ -- Chad Walstrom <chewie@wookimus.net> | a.k.a. ^chewie http://www.wookimus.net/ | s.k.a. gunnarr Key fingerprint = B4AB D627 9CBD 687E 7A31 1950 0CC7 0B18 206C 5AFD
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