That sums it up pretty well, indeed.

The only potentially trouble spot is that the order in which (in your 
example) db3 and db4 are installed affects to which the db.dylib 
symlink points. If a package has to link against a particular 
version, that could generate problems. Alas, in such cases, the 
package could possibly be modified to use the correct version 
directly instead.


You don't want to build a package twice only to be able to split it 
into two disjoint .debs. Maybe we could add some feature that allows 
to create both "variants" (although variants is not quite the correct 
term here) in one build.

Note that package variants are strictly spoken completly orthogonal to this.



Max
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