On Sat, Dec 03, 2005 at 12:28:36AM -0800, Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org> was heard to say: > On Sat, Dec 03, 2005 at 08:58:45AM +0100, Mike Hommey wrote: > > Will all the tools resolving the dependencies be fine with a dependency > > on a virtual package without one an a real package ? (like for > > zlib1g-dev | libz-dev) > > Yes. See apt's Provides for an example of this. Just in case there's any confusion: the problem with depending only on a virtual package is that some tools tend to pick an arbitrary Provider of the package, which can in turn lead to unpredictable behavior. If only one provider at a time is installable, this shouldn't be a problem, though. Daniel
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