Re: gnupg problem
tb@becket.net (Thomas Bushnell, BSG) writes:
> 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.
Eh, software which provides the 'editor' virtual package *has* a
consistent command line interface. The user interfaces are extremely
different, but this doesn't matter much.
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