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Re: dpkg unpack vs. configure

Christoph Lameter <clameter@waterf.org> wrote:
>On 30 Dec 1996, Guy Maor wrote:
>
>maor >Christoph Lameter <clameter@waterf.org> writes:
>maor >> 1. Package A needs package B to work
>maor >> 
>maor >> 2. Package B needs package A to work.
>maor >> 
>maor >> If that would be the case then both packages need to be
>maor >> made one right?
>maor >
>maor >What if `A' were a virtual package?
>
>I have never seen a virtual package depending on something.
>Where would you specify dependencies for a virtual package?
>Perhaps I am not aware of everything dpkg can do?

What happens if there are (say) two front ends, which require
another program to work? And that program requires a front end,
since it'd be too complicated to work with the program without
such a thing? In that case, the front ends would depend upon
the functional program, and the functional program would depend
upon the virtual package which both the front ends provided.

Contrived? Yes. But it serves to illustrate the point.


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