Le lundi 24 janvier 2005 à 16:02 +0100, Wouter Verhelst a écrit : > > 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. > > Well, yeah; but it /still/ isn't possible to depend on a 2.6 kernel and > assume all will suddenly work well. Just like it isn't possible to depend on mail-transport-agent and assume all will suddenly work well, as the user can deactivate it by changing files in /etc. However, the dependency will guarantee it will work well with the default setup. -- .''`. Josselin Mouette /\./\ : :' : josselin.mouette@ens-lyon.org `. `' joss@debian.org `- Debian GNU/Linux -- The power of freedom
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