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Re: Reasons for recommends and suggests



On Sat, May 19, 2007 at 09:43:20PM -0500, Manoj Srivastava wrote:
> On Sun, 20 May 2007 10:23:51 +0900, Charles Plessy <charles-debian-nospam@plessy.org> said: 
> 
> > Suggests: foo, bar, baz
> 
> > Justify-foo: To play while the program works for you.  Justify-bar:
> > Here a longer discussions which
> >  takes advantages of the format of the control file
> > Justify-baz: You can use baz instead of bar.
> 
>         So now you have a variably named field in the control file --
>  which is legal, but does require a bit more intelligence for parsing
>  programmatically.
> 
Something like /^Justify-\([^:]+\):/ should do it, right?  Then $1
becomes the package name.

Regards,

-Roberto

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Roberto C. Sánchez
http://people.connexer.com/~roberto
http://www.connexer.com

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