On Tue, Mar 29, 2005 at 12:22:39AM -0600, David Moreno Garza wrote:
> On Mon, 2005-03-28 at 09:37 -0700, David Everly wrote:
> > Hello Debian Mentors,
> >
> > How do I construct a "Depends" line in debian/control for the following
> > example:
> >
> > Require package-a or package-b.
> >
> > If package-a is selected, require package-1 and package-2.
> >
> > If package-b is selected, require package-3.
> >
> > Notes:
> >
> > package-a, package-b, package-1, package-2, and package-3 are
> > not under my control.
> >
> > package-1, package-2, and package-3 do not depend on package-a or
> > package-b.
> >
> > What I think I want to do is probably not supported (or is it?):
> >
> > Depends: (package-a,package-1,package-2) | (package-b,package-3)
>
> My quick thought would be:
>
> Build different binary packages, i.e. foo-package-a depends on package-1
> and package-2 and foo-package-b depends on package-3, where foo is,
> probably, the common name for your packages. That's all.
>
> I hope this could reach what you were expecting.
Thanks. Yes, this worked quite well.
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