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Re: build-depending on a virtual package



On Tue, May 02, 2006 at 12:14:30AM +0300, George Danchev wrote:
> I just discovered the fact that ara build-depends on a virtual package - 
> ocaml-best-compilers. I'm not sure about the reasons we have been after to 
> declared this in a such way, but this should give random failures imho. How 
> are autobuilders supposed know which physical package(s) to install to satisfy 
> the provision of ocaml-best-compilers. Seems it is far better to build-depend 
> on ocaml-native-compilers or I'm missing something ?

ocaml-native-compilers is not available on all architectures.

On some architectures ocaml-best-compilers is provided by ocaml, on some
other by ocaml-native-compilers.

Cheers.

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