* Nicolas Williams <[email protected]> [2010-04-20 10:42]:
> On Tue, Apr 20, 2010 at 10:37:01AM -0700, [email protected] wrote:
> > It certainly true that tradionally more(1) has been installed by
> > default because, as Adam notes, it's part of SUNWcs.  Moving forward,
> > SUNWcs will be replaced with a set of smaller packages and so more(1)
> > and less(1) will be more-or-less[1] on equal footing.  Distributions
> > may choose to deliver one or the other as their default pager program.
> 
> So doctools will need an either-or dependency.  Can IPS represent such
> dependencies?  The skel doftiles can always leave PAGER unset if neither
> pager is installed...  In that case doctools could just have two
> optional dependencies on more and less.

  I don't think that the PAGER interface requires optional package
  dependencies.  There's no anticipated (or past) change.

  - Stephen

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