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Re: dpkg unpack vs. configure

On Thu, 2 Jan 1997, Christoph Lameter wrote:

> alternate1
> Depends: mainpackage
> 
> alternate2
> Depends: mainpackage
> 
> main:
> Depends: alternate1 | alternate2
> 
> Virtual packages are not playing an important role in that issue I think.
> 
> But here there is really an circular dependency. That is the quake
> situation right?

It was the quake situation. Perhaps a better example is the jdk, which has
exactly the situation you described, with mainpackage = jdk-common,
alternate1 = jdk-static and alternate2 = jdk-shared .

> Alternate1 and alternate2 cannot work without something using them. But
> that is also the case with all libraries provided by Debian. The 
> C-library also does not depend on anything and is not useful on its own.
>
> Thus the alternate package need not depend on the main package. The main
> package is also the package a installer would choose.

I don't think that someone wanting to install the jdk will always select
jdk-common instead of jdk-shared. Maybe if alternate1 and alternate2
recommend mainpackage, it will be good enough to ensure that the user
selects the 2 packages they need (that's the aproach quake uses now).

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