On Mon, Jan 12, 2004 at 11:20:42AM +0100, Remi Vanicat wrote: > Stefano Zacchiroli <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > On Sun, Jan 11, 2004 at 09:14:06PM +0100, Remi Vanicat wrote: > >> Well, I would prefer that lablgtk doesn't depend on findlib, may be it > >> would be better to make a conflict, as in > > > > Yes, is a possibility, but why? > > Well, because one can use lablgtk/lablgl without findlib, and I do > know that there are people who prefer to not use findlib. So We should > give the possibility to our user to install lablgtk without installing > findlib. > > If we add a depend, we remove this possibility. If we add a conflict > with older version of findlib, we clearly stat that the new lablgtk > do not work with older version of findlib, but we still give to our > user the possibility to install lablgtk without findlib. > > One could also not put any new dependency (depend nor conflict) or only > a suggest/recommend (but I don't know how a suggest/recommend could > work with dependency)
The conflict stuff seems nicer. Friendly, Sven Luther
