Re: findlib 1.x's features (includes shining new METAs for lablg*)

[Sven Luther <sven.luther@wanadoo.fr>]

On Mon, Jan 12, 2004 at 11:20:42AM +0100, Remi Vanicat wrote:
> Stefano Zacchiroli <zack@debian.org> writes:
> 
> > On Sun, Jan 11, 2004 at 09:14:06PM +0100, Remi Vanicat wrote:
> >> Well, I would prefer that lablgtk doesn't depend on findlib, may be it
> >> would be better to make a conflict, as in
> >
> > Yes, is a possibility, but why? 
> 
> Well, because one can use lablgtk/lablgl without findlib, and I do
> know that there are people who prefer to not use findlib. So We should
> give the possibility to our user to install lablgtk without installing
> findlib. 
> 
> If we add a depend, we remove this possibility. If we add a conflict
> with older version of findlib, we clearly stat that the new lablgtk
> do not work with older version of findlib, but we still give to our
> user the possibility to install lablgtk without findlib.
> 
> One could also not put any new dependency (depend nor conflict) or only
> a suggest/recommend (but I don't know how a suggest/recommend could
> work with dependency)

The conflict stuff seems nicer.

Friendly,

Sven Luther