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Re: Versionned dependencies



Mike Hommey <mh@glandium.org> (02/02/2012):
> As discussed on irc, if you instead do iceweasel-api-3.6, iceweasel-api-4.0,
> etc. you end up having crazy dependencies like:
> Depends: iceweasel-api-3.6 | iceweasel-api-4.0 | iceweasel-api-5.0 |
> iceweasel-api-6.0 | ... | iceweasel-api-11.0 | iceape-api-2.1 |
> iceape-api-2.2 | ...
> 
> How exactly is that better?

No Breaks makes it less likely for your package manager to think about
removing packages.

Mraw,
KiBi.

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