Josselin Mouette wrote: > 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. IIRC wrong for powerpc with sarge's glibc. Thiemo
Attachment:
signature.asc
Description: Digital signature