Subject: Re: Sub package proposal
To: Hubert Feyrer <hubert.feyrer@informatik.fh-regensburg.de>
From: Todd Vierling <tv@wasabisystems.com>
List: tech-pkg
Date: 10/23/2000 18:46:30
On Mon, 23 Oct 2000, Hubert Feyrer wrote:

: >   Right. What happens if some package depends on another one, 
: > and especially on a part of that other that is optional? Do
: > we need to expand our dependecies to
: > 
: > 	DEPENDS=	perl>=5.6(doc,ext)
: > 
: >   or something?
: 
: *shiver*

Why shiver?  This is precisely the kind of thing that can alleviate our
pkg-dependency upgrade headaches.

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