[Mimedefang] Overcoming RPM stupidity
David F. Skoll
dfs at roaringpenguin.com
Tue Dec 19 22:52:03 EST 2006
Jeff Rife wrote:
> Of course, if RPM had a more flexible "requirements" syntax, you could
> have things like optional requirements or "pick one of" (as this is).
Debian can have alternate requirements. (Eg, mimedefang can
depend on one of libfoo-perl or libquux-perl).
You can simulate it in RPM with Provides/Requires, but it takes more
planning. You'd need to make MIMEDefang Require a generic
perl-syslog-module, and have Sys::Syslog and Unix::Syslog Provide
perl-syslog-module. Arguably, that's the correct way to go,
given that Sys::Syslog and Unix::Syslog provide the same facility.
Regards,
David.
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