On Tue, Dec 07, 2004 at 09:45:33PM +0000, Ari Pollak wrote: > Daniel Burrows <dburrows <at> debian.org> writes: > > When your package Depends upon or Recommends a pure-virtual package P, you > > should always OR the dependency with a dependency on something that provides > > P, > As a totally offtopic suggestion, how come APT doesn't handle virtual packages > the way Fink does, where the user gets to choose which virtual package to > install to satisfy the dependency? Probably because apt is a back-end (nominally) and so doesn't do a lot of questioning. Certainly things like aptitude, synaptic, dselect etc. should. And possibly they do. ^_^ -- ----------------------------------------------------------- Paul "TBBle" Hampson, MCSE 7th year CompSci/Asian Studies student, ANU The Boss, Bubblesworth Pty Ltd (ABN: 51 095 284 361) Paul.Hampson@Anu.edu.au "No survivors? Then where do the stories come from I wonder?" -- Capt. Jack Sparrow, "Pirates of the Caribbean" This email is licensed to the recipient for non-commercial use, duplication and distribution. -----------------------------------------------------------
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