Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. - 10:57 22.01.09 wrote:
I'm not sure about the terminology, being most familiar with Debian packaging. "Over there", a virtual package is a package name that is Provided by one or more real packages that does not actually exist, and that's not what I'm suggesting. "Over there", a meta-package is empty or nearly empty package that mainly exists to pull in other packages through its Depends, Recommends, and Suggests. I am suggesting a mysql-5.1 meta-package to ease the transition for people using the mysql-5.0 (real) package, while also moving forwards with modular (real) packages: mysql-core-5.1 and mysql-${plugin_api}-foo-plugin-${plugin_version}.
I hope that was clearer.
Yes, that's exactly how I understood it. Well, currently I'm using mysql package for core application and it recommends plugins. But with metapackage it may be more obvious that something changed. Well, I'll do some more testing with updating and new installation to make sure that users wouldn't get confused. Thank you again for sharing your opinion. -- Michal Hrusecky Package Maintainer SUSE LINUX, s.r.o e-mail: mhrusecky@suse.cz -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org