On Sat, Jan 02, 2010 at 11:32:00AM +0900, David Cournapeau wrote: > [snip] > - supporting different variants of the same package in the > dependency graph at install time
> [snip] > The second issue is more challenging. It complicates the dependency > handling quite a bit, and may cause difficult situations to happen at > dependency resolution time. This becomes particularly messy if you mix > packages you build yourself with packages grabbed from a repository. I > wonder if there is a simpler solution which would give a similar > feature set. AFAICT, in Debian, the same feature is given via virtual packages: you would have: python-matplotlib python-matplotlib-basemap for instance. It is interesting to note that the same source package may be used to generate both binary, end-user, packages. And happy new year! Gaël _______________________________________________ NumPy-Discussion mailing list NumPy-Discussion@scipy.org http://mail.scipy.org/mailman/listinfo/numpy-discussion
