On Mon, Mar 05, 2001 at 02:09:37PM +1100, Brian May wrote:
> >>>>> "Marc" == Marc Haber <debian-devel.lists.debian.org@marc-haber.de> writes:
> Seems a horrible idea.
>
In the pre/postinst, this is a bad idea, for all the reasons you
describe. But "dynamic dependencies" which change based on your
current configuration, are a really good idea. This subject came up
in the discussion of dpkg-dev-el a little while back.
Imagine if we had, for dpkg-dev
Reccomends: (dpkg-dev-el IF emacs-common)
or some similar synatax. This allows dpkg/apt to calculate the
dependencies, but still allows for the kind of flexibility you need.
For the kernel, too many people don't use make-kpkg for this to work.
But for other packages, it could provide a real benifit.
sam th
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