Le lundi 24 janvier 2005 à 15:19 +0100, Wouter Verhelst a écrit : > > What if we removed all dependencies on mail-transport-agent, > > just because the user can install a random MTA by himself ? > > We won't, because that would be silly. And even if it weren't, this > still isn't relevant; we have mail-transport-agent available to declare > a dependency on, because it is possible. We don't have nptl available to > declare a dependency on, because that simply isn't possible. We can't list all features of some package in the Provides: field. When we need a feature that was added in some version of a package, there are versioned dependencies. In Debian, NPTL is available in the kernel since version 2.6. It's as simple as that. -- .''`. Josselin Mouette /\./\ : :' : josselin.mouette@ens-lyon.org `. `' joss@debian.org `- Debian GNU/Linux -- The power of freedom
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