Re: Metapackaging
On Tue Aug 20, 2024 at 1:55 PM BST, Greg Wooledge wrote:
> You're saying that you use equivs to create packages that have the SAME
> NAMES as Debian packages??
That's entirely the point of it, surely. You want to convince the
packaging system that you have dependency $FOO satisfied, even if you
don't. You create an "equivalent" metapackage.
As it happens I haven't used it for years, and if I had the need, I'd
probably hand-craft a package source, because that's easier to me than
figuring out the equivs incantations (which is exactly why I envisaged a
better UX).
I last looked at it seriously when I wrote game-data-packager, which
does something in the same space, in 2006 (I had to look that up).
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