Re: Can I simulate a weak conflict?
Hi,
On Wed, Jul 27, 2005 at 09:57:35AM +0200, Thomas Viehmann wrote:
> Hi.
>
> Nicolas Boullis wrote:
> > If there's currently no way to set up such things, it might be worth
> > suggesting to add such a feature to next-generation .deb format. Don't
> > you think so?
> To be honest, no.
> If you do a Recommends: udev (>= ...), most people will just install the
> recommended udev and be fine. People who have reason to not like to use
> udev will just not.
> Most people won't want to make a decision, so it's of no use giving them
> the choice. Those who want to choose will read the README.Debian to see
> what's going on. For the others: Do venture a single recommondation.
I have to disagree. For people who don't want to make a choice, tools
like aptitude in its default configuration will install recommended
packages. So it would install udev, even for someone who uses a 2.4
kernel... I'd rather set no recommendation at all, or conflict with old
udev...
> > 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)".
> > I guess this would behave as expected, but I think that having one more
> > package only for this would be quite insane!
> Let's not.
Don't worry, I won't. Let's not bloat the packages file once again! ;-)
Nicolas
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