Richard Braakman <dark@xs4all.nl> wrote:
> 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
What this seems to say is:
libdbd-mysql-perl OR libdbdb-msql-perl AND libdbd-mysql-perl OR msql AND mysql OR
libdbd-msql-perl AND mysql OR msql
Didn't understand a thing... :) Lets put the thing I want to do in pseudo code:
if (libdbd-mysql-perl AND mysql) OR (libdbd-msql-perl AND msql); then
true
else
false
endif
> It's not pretty, I'll admit :)
You bet... :) But does it do what I want it to do?
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