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Re: gnupg problem



Florian Weimer <Florian.Weimer@RUS.Uni-Stuttgart.DE> writes:

> tb@becket.net (Thomas Bushnell, BSG) writes:
> 
> > It's clear to me we need a virtual package for "pgp implementation"
> > that both pgp and gnupg can provide.
> 
> Uh, this doesn't work.  Even the PGP releases aren't completely
> compatible among themselves, and GnuPG has got a completely different
> command line interface.
> 
> This makes as much sense as a virutal package "scripting language"
> which is provided by Python, Perle, Guile, and others.

In order to have a virtual package, there is absolutely no need that
the various packages that provide it have compatible or even remotely
similar interfaces.

Consider, for example, the "editor" virtual package.



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