suggestions

[Francesco Potorti` <F.Potorti@cnuce.cnr.it>]

I think there should be a way, more or less accessible, to specify a fake
package, for two purposes:

- One  is the  purpose currently  served by  the equivs  package,  that is,
  create a  fake package for other  packages to depend on.   This is useful
  if, for  example, I want  to maintain my  own version of  emacs (possibly
  with  pretest versions) and  want to  use other  packages that  depend on
  emacs.

- The other is for the opposite: I want to create fake packages that reuire
  some package.   This is useful if  I want to  install StarOffice40, which
  requires the libc5  version of libXpm, and want  to prevent configuration
  errors, that is, removing the libXpm package by mistake.

I think these features could be part of the forthcoming user interface.

Thanks for reading.