I think there should be a way, more or less accessible, to specify a fake package, for two purposes:
- One is the purpose currently served by the equivs package, that is, create a fake package for other packages to depend on. This is useful if, for example, I want to maintain my own version of emacs (possibly with pretest versions) and want to use other packages that depend on emacs. - The other is for the opposite: I want to create fake packages that reuire some package. This is useful if I want to install StarOffice40, which requires the libc5 version of libXpm, and want to prevent configuration errors, that is, removing the libXpm package by mistake. I think these features could be part of the forthcoming user interface. Thanks for reading.
