Ah, seems you've implemented your option (d) already. Good. Frank Gevaerts <frank@gevaerts.be> writes: > > Depends: ttf-freefonts | ttf-larabie-straight, ttf-freefonts | ttf-larabie-deco > > That is indeed the same thing. This means my original requirement is not > entirely what I want either. What I mean is "ttf-freefont is sufficient. > If you want the better-looking fonts, you need both > ttf-larabie-straight and ttf-larabie-deco" Which is adequately represented by the above line. If the user has nothing, hu must either install -freefonts or both larabie packages to satisfy it. I think apt and friends will prefer ttf-freefonts when asked to fulfill the dependency by themselves. An interesting question is that the tools do when one larabie package is installed. > By the way, is it even allowed by policy to do this ? section 2.1.2 > says: must not require a package outside of main for compilation or execution > (thus, the package must not declare a "Depends", "Recommends", or > "Build-Depends" relationship on a non-main package. > Does this allow a Depends on (free|non-free) ? If not a lot of packages are in violation. For example some packages depend on "some-free-java-impementation | java-virtual-machine". j-v-m is also satisfied by non-free packages. -- Robbe
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