On 01-06-16 Gustavo Noronha Silva wrote: > Em Sat, 16 Jun 2001 10:32:41 -0700 (MST) > tony mancill <tony@mancill.com> escreveu: > > /usr/bin/mp3-decoder is a symlink to whatever player the user has > > installed. And in either case, it seems that packages that depend on the > > virtual package mp3-decoder will have to worry about a common set of > > command line arguments. > wouldn't > Depends: splay | somethg | somthg-else > do the job? No, because Tony would still need to tell ripperx (I think during compilation), which mp3-player it shall try to use. And so according to your suggestion, he would still compile it with splay, add this dependency and then ripperx will fail on a system, where splay is not installed. Christian -- Debian Developer (http://www.debian.org) 1024/26CC7853 31E6 A8CA 68FC 284F 7D16 63EC A9E6 67FF 26CC 7853
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