On Sun, May 13, 2001 at 12:38:05PM -0700, Thomas Bushnell, BSG wrote: > > A solution would be some sort of an essential virtual package that > > editors would provide, but that's not viable, either. So we're > > stuck. :) > > Why is that not viable? > > Do the following: > > * Make all the different editor packages provide the virtual package > "editor". > * Create a real package "editor-proxy", which depends on "editor", and > is marked Essential.
And then have a couple of hundred packages that use invoke editor depend on it, and after that have a couple of thousand packages depend on it because they depend on it implicitely... -- Digital Electronic Being Intended for Assassination and Nullification
