On 21/05/11 12:24, Josselin Mouette wrote:
Therefore, I’m wondering whether it would be possible to extend the syntax of Recommends to allow for conditional dependencies. For example,
IANADD, however...In database terms you're talking about a separate table that stores N:N relationships,
so why store the information in either package?It would be better from a data-processing perspective to store this information in another package, as this would allow for arbitrary constraints and brings in the whole concept of actions (such as package installs) once prerequisite-triggers fire. This "package" wouldn't even need to be the "a.plugin-b" package, if there are many
such packages. Philip