well debian has pseudo packages as you call them, they are -task packages,
maybe we should see how they are made??

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>There is a problem with the two pseudo packages darwin and macosx - 
>they don't work for the binary distro.
>
>Reason: these pseudo packages are only visible to Fink, not to dpkg. 
>The first simple solution would be to make them visible by inserting 
>fake descriptions into dpkg's database, but that would then have only 
>static version information. Not good if one wants to share a single 
>fink install on multiple slightly different systems.
>
>So one possibility would be to modify dpkg to also know about these 
>packages. That's not very nice, though :/. Anybody got a better idea?

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