Why new package name libsasl2-2

Roberto C. Sanchez roberto at connexer.com
Tue Oct 17 14:48:22 UTC 2006


On Tue, Oct 17, 2006 at 08:42:28AM -0300, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote:
> On Tue, 17 Oct 2006, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote:
> > I was thinking about this as a possibility.  However, if we create a
> > dummy package, then you end up with one empty package which doesn't do
> > anything (hence "dummy" package).  I think a better route is to use
> > Provides.  I think the dummy package approach is better reserved for
> 
> Just make sure you do not need versioned relationships.  You cannot do
> versioned dependencies/conflicts on "provided" packages (in fact, if you do,
> they always fail to match).
> 
Good point.  I completely forgot about that.

Regards,

-Roberto

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Roberto C. Sanchez
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