Re: [RFC] Debian skin for AIX
> Thanks to Tony and Colin I do get the point about PERL. But PERL
> was a particularly bad example I chose to demonstrate an issue. Lets try
> it with another type of dependancy : every AIX system by default comes
> installed with sendmail. Packages that need a mail server should recognize
> by reading the ODM that there is a mail server installed. How are the
> other debian ports to other OS's handling this type of an issue?
It depends. I'm working on FreeBSD, but I'm putting FreeBSD into Debian
packages, so this problem doesn't come up. That's a reasonable solution for me,
since I have source code to FreeBSD. Probably wouldn't work for AIX.
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