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Re: New package dependency field format



On Wed, Sep 03, 2003 at 03:41:11PM +0200, Josip Rodin wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 02, 2003 at 03:07:06PM -0500, Adam Heath wrote:
> > ! is probably needed.
> 
> What for, exactly? I can think of
> 
> Depends: foo
> Conflicts: foo (= 1.34-2)
> 
> being replaced by
> 
> Depends: foo (!= 1.34-2)
> 
> but that sounds more like eye candy than really necessary...

Depends: foo | ! bar

That can be read as "If bar is installed, then foo must also be
installed".

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