Re: Bug#273734: education-common: con't fulfill the Recommends on !i386
On Sun, Oct 03, 2004 at 11:16:56PM -0400, Kevin Mark wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 04, 2004 at 12:03:48AM +0200, Adrian Bunk wrote:
> >
> > Assume a package would recommend grub which is only available on i386.
> > There are two cases:
> > - grub is required only on i386
> > Recommends: grub | not+i386
> > (or some similar treatment during package building)
> > - grub is really required
> > in this case, the pacakge should be available only on i386
> >
> > > Gruesse,
> >
> > cu
> > Adrian
> >
> Hi, would a virtual package help?
> grub=i386 silo=sun
> boot-loader=grub|silo
> where boot-loader is a virtual package
> and grub and silo are packages that fulfill the requirement of
> boot-loader
No.
E.g. this wouldn't solve the problem from #273734 since lilo is also a
boot-loader.
> -Kev
cu
Adrian
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