Hello,
I am warming up an old thread since one of my packages which I am
currently updating does exactly this:
Dave Vasilevsky Sun, 31 Jul 2005 04:28:33 -0700
On Jul 30, 2005, at 3:24 PM, Alexander Hansen wrote:
IMO we shouldn't have 'bar' provide 'foo' as well as have a
separate 'foo' package. This is a continual source of chaos.
There are many many packages right now that do this. Major reasons
are: variants/ssl, old packages that used to be separate but are now
integrated into another package, system-* packages that include the
functionality of real packages.
Can anybody enlighten me on
- why this is a bad idea?
- how this should be handled?
(my package is dcmtk/dcmtk-ssl)
Thanks for your help
Yours
Bernd
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