Re: Grouping dependencies

[Goswin Brederlow <goswin.brederlow@student.uni-tuebingen.de>]

>>>>> " " == Jérôme Marant <jerome.marant@free.fr> writes:

     > Hi, (and happy new year :-))

     > I'm packaging a program that has some kind of dependencies:

     > Package: A Depends: B | C, D | E

     > I'd like to make sure that: - once B installed, D was also
     > installed - or once C installed, E was also installed.

     > Unfortunatelly IIRC, dpkg does not allow me to do things like :
     > Depends: (B, D) | (C, E)

Hmm, this has been asked before. There is a solution.

Depends: B | C, B | E, C | D, D | E
B, D   :   *      *      *      *    : works
C, E   :   *      *      *      *    : works
B, E   :   *      *    -----    *    : fails
C, D   :   *    -----    *      *    : fails

But b,c,d or b,c,e or even b,c,d,e will also work, which should not be
a problem.

MfG
        Goswin