On Mon, May 14, 2001 at 07:24:34AM +1000, Herbert Xu wrote: > >> 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... > > Nope. It will truly be essential without actually being marked essnetial > as an essential package depends on it. So this actually avoids the need > for explicit dependencies.
Hmm. It will still be easy to break this dependency with --force-depends, which is about the same thing as removing all the editors, you have to do it on purpose. Then again, I'm nitpicking now, ignore me :) BTW which would the default be, Depends: ae | editor? Or should we have a flamewar^Wdiscussion on devel about it? }:) -- Digital Electronic Being Intended for Assassination and Nullification
