Re: Proposal: a generic dpkg event hook broker

[Eduard Bloch <edi@gmx.de>]

#include <hallo.h>
* Josselin Mouette [Sat, Jun 07 2003, 10:28:28PM]:
> Le mar 03/06/2003 à 00:23, Adam Heath a écrit :
> > Already being planned for dpkg 2.0.  Note, this has to be tied in with the
> > status of the package being hooked, as the status changes state, so it really
> > needs to be done in dpkg.
> 
> In a similar manner, will something like "if packages A and B are
> installed, then install package C" become possible ?
> It would be really useful for stuff like specific l10n packages.

Yeah, yet another developer agrees with me, see
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=77324. Conditional
dependencies would also make other things things like CPU dependend
package installation.

Regards,
Eduard.
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