Marco d'Itri wrote: > On Oct 12, Mario Iseli <mario@marioiseli.com> wrote: > >> as described in >> http://www.debian.org/doc/packaging-manuals/virtual-package-names-list.txt >> I announce here my idea of the virtual package ircd. When I count >> correctly are at the moment 7 different IRC-daemons in Debian and they >> logically conflict with each other. So I would think an official virtual >> package would be a fine solution. There are also IRC services which work >> in general with all ircds, so it would be easier if those packages also >> could only depend on "ircd". I'm not sure that multiple IRC-daemons logically conflict with other, given that you can configure them to run on different ports. In fact, IIRC, I've had more than one ircd-like package installed on a single system in the past. Perhaps you could share more information about what the virtual package would allow? tony
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