On Thu, Dec 06, 2007 at 06:51:57PM +0000, Benji Weber wrote:
On 06/12/2007, Michael Schroeder <mls@suse.de> 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. -- Michael Schroeder mls@suse.de SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, GF Markus Rex, HRB 16746 AG Nuernberg main(_){while(_=~getchar())putchar(~_-1/(~(_|32)/13*2-11)*13);} -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: zypp-devel+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: zypp-devel+help@opensuse.org