Re: Virtual package: flexmem

[Steve Greenland <steveg@moregruel.net>]

On 22-Mar-04, 08:01 (CST), Bartosz Fenski aka fEnIo <fenio@o2.pl> wrote: 
> Hello.
> 
> I would like to have flexmem virtual package in official list of such
> packages. Actually one package is using it. It's obexftp [1].

No, this is bad idea, at least as far as I can tell from the package
descriptions.

Virtual packages are NOT for "provides marginally related
functionality". Virtual packages are for "provides a common interface
for common functionality that other packages can use interchangeably".

Give me an example how a *package* can usefully depend on "flexmem" and
then work no matter which of obexftp and siafs gets installed. Compare
that to how a package can depend on "mail-transfer-agent" and reasonably
expect to be able to do 'sendmail foo@example.org'.

Steve

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