[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Thomas Bushnell, BSG) writes: > Florian Weimer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Thomas Bushnell, BSG) writes: > > > > > It's clear to me we need a virtual package for "pgp implementation" > > > that both pgp and gnupg can provide. > > > > Uh, this doesn't work. Even the PGP releases aren't completely > > compatible among themselves, and GnuPG has got a completely different > > command line interface. > > > > This makes as much sense as a virutal package "scripting language" > > which is provided by Python, Perle, Guile, and others. > > In order to have a virtual package, there is absolutely no need that > the various packages that provide it have compatible or even remotely > similar interfaces. > > Consider, for example, the "editor" virtual package.
Eh, software which provides the 'editor' virtual package *has* a consistent command line interface. The user interfaces are extremely different, but this doesn't matter much. -- Florian Weimer [EMAIL PROTECTED] University of Stuttgart http://cert.uni-stuttgart.de/ RUS-CERT +49-711-685-5973/fax +49-711-685-5898
