Re: DPKG proposal

[Tollef Fog Heen <tfheen@err.no>]

* Fabian Zeindl 

| I don't know whether this interests you, but I asked myself if dpkg
| could support some kind of "Use Flags" in the future?
| 
| Basically it's a dependency switch, so when you install postfix for
| example with "TLS" or "secure" useflag globally enabled it will
| automatically install tls extensions as well. Wenn you install PSI (a
| jabber client) it will install the ssl-plugin for it...

Sounds a lot like http://www.dpkg.org/FeatureDependencies to me.

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