On Sun, Apr 12, 1998 at 02:03:50PM -0400, Brian White wrote: > It is policy that package that depend on non-free packages must go into > contrib. However, what if a package depends on a virtual package that > is only provided by packages outside of "main"?
Virtual packages are just a short-hand notation of "package1 | package2 | ... | packageN", where package* are existant packages that happen to provide certain functionality. This is how we should see virtual packages for this kind of issues. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

