Turbo Fredriksson wrote: > I could however depend on 'libdbd-mysql-perl | libdbd-msql-perl, msql | mysql' > or perhaps '(libdbd-mysql-perl, mysql) | (libdbd-msql-perl, msql)'... Can one > write it like that? No, but one can always reduce a complex expression to the form used by dpkg: libdbd-mysql-perl | libdbd-msql-perl, libdbd-mysql-perl | msql, mysql | libdbd-msql-perl, mysql | msql It's not pretty, I'll admit :) Richard Braakman