Mailinglist Archive: zypp-devel (56 mails)

[Michael Schroeder <mls@xxxxxxx>]

On Thu, Dec 06, 2007 at 06:51:57PM +0000, Benji Weber wrote:
> On 06/12/2007, Michael Schroeder <mls@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> > Not true, debian has virtaul requires like rpm. The even have a
> > dependency "OR", which makes things even more complicated...
>
> Interesting, I didn't realise about the OR. Can the virtual packages
> be freeform to be a filename or pci-id etc?

Debian doesn't support 'auto-provide' of filenames. And I don't
think that the '/' character is allowed in a dependency.

Furthermore, the list of allowed virtual packages is pretty limited.
If you want to add some new virtual package, you must first
ask for permission to do so. Here's a list of virtual packages:

http://www.debian.org/doc/packaging-manuals/virtual-package-names-list.txt

You don't need so many virtual packages in debian because of
the package OR. (This makes it harder for 3rd party packagers
to provide alternatives, though.)

Cheers,
  Michael.

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