Re: RFC: flavored provides, i.e. emacs25ish

[Rob Browning <rlb@defaultvalue.org>]

Sven Joachim <svenjoac@gmx.de> writes:

> Probably we're talking at cross-purposes here, but surely the new flavor
> should provide emacs25 just as the existing emacs25-nox and
> emacs25-lucid flavors already do?

As far as I understand it, nothing can provide emacs25 except for the
emacs25 binary package (because emacs25 already exists as a binary
package)[1].

Hence the need for "something else" for the "provides", and so far it
sounds like {emacs,xemacs}XY-any might be least worst.

But even with that, as suggeste, I think we'll be stuck with 2 deps
per-flavor because virtual-only deps are disagreeable, e.g.:

  emacs25-nox | emacs25-any | emacs24-nox | emacs24-any

[1] Which is also why (iirc) for a long time there was no emacs
    meta-package (because before emacs19 (I think), the Emacs package
    was just "emacs").

Thanks
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Rob Browning
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