On 15 Aug 1998, Turbo Fredriksson wrote: > Richard Braakman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Turbo Fredriksson wrote: > > > > > I could however depend on 'libdbd-mysql-perl | libdbd-msql-perl, msql | > > > mysql' > > > or perhaps '(libdbd-mysql-perl, mysql) | (libdbd-msql-perl, msql)'... Can > > > one > > > write it like that? > > > > No, but one can always reduce a complex expression to the form used by dpkg: > > > > libdbd-mysql-perl | libdbd-msql-perl, libdbd-mysql-perl | msql, mysql | > > libdbd-msql-perl, mysql | msql > > What this seems to say is: > > libdbd-mysql-perl OR libdbdb-msql-perl AND libdbd-mysql-perl OR msql AND > mysql OR > libdbd-msql-perl AND mysql OR msql > > Didn't understand a thing... :) Lets put the thing I want to do in pseudo > code: >
No need. Richard understood what you wanted. If you don't believe his works, then drwa yourself a truth table :-) It's a question of whether you find conjunctive or disjunctive normal form more intuitive... Jules /----------------+-------------------------------+---------------------\ | Jelibean aka | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | 6 Evelyn Rd | | Jules aka | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Richmond, Surrey | | Julian Bean | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | TW9 2TF *UK* | +----------------+-------------------------------+---------------------+ | War doesn't demonstrate who's right... just who's left. | | When privacy is outlawed... only the outlaws have privacy. | \----------------------------------------------------------------------/
