[csw-maintainers] Packages that require either package A or package B

[Ben Walton]

Excerpts from Philip Brown's message of Thu May 21 13:36:14 -0400 2009:

> personally, i think they screwed up with the fundamental design of
> IPS.  [in multiple areas] My opinion, is that if we put in enough
> effort into improving SVR4 for the things that it really lacks (by
> our use of extending it through class action scripts, for example),
> that one day, IPS will be the NIS+, compared to pkgadd's NIS.

The debian system works well (although I've never packaged anything
using it).  Good things (imo) are:

1. Depending on or being incompatible with specific versions (or
   ranges) of package X
2. Depends on mail-server/Provides mail-server
3. Depends on mysql|postgres

Where does IPS fit into the landscape in comparison to debian and
svr4?  (Or tell me to go RTFM!)

-Ben
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