Re: Meaning of Providing yourself

[Alex Yukhimets <aqy6633@acf5.nyu.edu>]

> 
> Hi,
> 
> I have noticed that a number of packages provide themselves, ie they have
> a Provides: line that mentions their name. This seems to be a pointless
> exercize, but perhaps I am missing something?
> 
> ddd and et both do this in hamm and my status file has kpathsea and
> libg++27-dev as well.

Hi.

As for ddd, ddd provides "ddd"  *and* ddd-?motif also provide "ddd".
Does this have any sense now?

Alex Y.

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