Re: RFS: core++
Florent Rougon wrote:
> Err, no. Virtual packages aren't supposed to be used this way. Whenever
> one depends or build-depends on a virtual package, it should be done
> just like Joachim did: 'gawk | awk', where gawk is a real package
> Providing the virtual package awk; this allows to control which package
> is installed when doing non-interactive installations (such as happens
> on buildds).
it is only about the build-depends, not depends. for depends, i agree to
the following part at the bottom.
for build-depends, i think i don't get your point above. if he doesn't
need gawk explicitly but just an arbitrary awk implementation, why still
listing it? mawk which provides awk is of priority required...
> It also allows apt frontends to select the default choice
> when something depends on awk (but in this case, the user can choose to
> install another implentation of awk to satisfy the dependency).
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