Re: Can I simulate a weak conflict?
Hi,
On Wed, Jul 27, 2005 at 11:22:44AM -0600, Bruce Sass wrote:
> On Wed, 27 Jul 2005, Frank Küster wrote:
> > Nicolas Boullis <nboullis@debian.org> wrote:
> >
> > > Oh, and I just thought there could be a workaround. I could make a new
> > > no-udev empty package that conflicts with udev, and then write
> > > "Recommends: no-udev | udev (>= 0.060-1)".
> >
> > An elegant solution ;-)
> >
> > > I guess this would behave as expected, but I think that having one more
> > > package only for this would be quite insane!
> >
> > Especially because others would pick up the idea...
>
> Can dpkg/apt/etc. be tweaked to automatically Provides: no-* ?
If they were to be tweaked, I'd rather like them to understand something
like "Recommends: !udev || udeb (>= 0.060-1)" rather than give a special
meaning to a prefix that would be perfectly legal in a package name.
Cheers,
Nicolas
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