Re: RFC: flavored provides, i.e. emacs25ish
On 2016-10-31 14:55 -0300, David Bremner wrote:
> Sven Joachim <svenjoac@gmx.de> writes:
>
>> On 2016-10-30 15:32 -0500, Rob Browning wrote:
>>
>>
>>> So I'm contemplating adding a new provides to all of the Emacs binary
>>> packages (e.g. to emacsXY, emacsXY-nox, and emacsXY-lucid). For now,
>>> let's call it emacsXYish, and given that, dh-elpa's deps would become:
>>>
>>> Depends: ... emacs25ish | emacs24ish ...
>>
>> Any idea which flavor "apt-get install dh-elpa" will then install? The
>> whole point of listing the -nox flavor as first alternative is to ensure
>> that time and disk space are not wasted by installing all the additional
>> dependencies of the other flavors in the build environment.
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Sven
>
> I think it will have to be
>
> Depends: emacs25-nox | emacs25ish | ...
In that case there is no need for the emacs25ish virtual package, since
"Depends: emacs25-nox | emacs25 | ..." already achieves the same effect.
Cheers,
Sven
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