Re: build-depending on a virtual package

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

On Thu, May 04, 2006 at 02:05:24PM +0200, Goswin von Brederlow wrote:
> Option 1) Just ignore it since there is only one package providing
> ocaml-best-compilers. Ignore "apt-get build-dep" breakage. They are
> partly a bug in apt anyway.

This is my prefered solution :) Broken tools should not be an excuse to chose
a less elegant technical solution, especially in free software scenarios.

> Option 2) Create a meta package "ocaml-best-compilers" that depends on
> the best compiler for each arch.

We discussed this back then, but it is a more ugly solution.

Friendly,

Sven Luther