clemens fischer wrote:
Yury Tarasievich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
I'd like to see in dependencies not only like "was built with
-1.9_2abc, so wants it", but also something like -1.5+ (obviously
1.5.0 and newer), -* (any version will do).
... sometimes newer versions aren't backwards
compatible, which you can't know back in the past.
A better approach might be to simply fob it
off on the user, i.e.,
# pkg_install foo-1.5
Warning: foo-1.5 requires bar-2.3, you have bar-1.7 installed.
Proceed? [Y/n]
Eventually, someone should teach pkg_install
about fetch, so it could offer the option of
downloading and installing the dependency.
IIRC, Debian's package system handled this pretty
elegantly---it even upgraded installed packages
automatically---although their curses-based
UI was ... erm .... "quirky." ;-)
Tim Kientzle
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