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

[Mike Watters]

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Ben Walton wrote:
> 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
Sun kinda supports this now in the depend files.

man depend

> 2. Depends on mail-server/Provides mail-server
> 3. Depends on mysql|postgres
This is one big thing the current Sun packages are really lacking

> 
> Where does IPS fit into the landscape in comparison to debian and
> svr4?  (Or tell me to go RTFM!)
> 
> -Ben
> 
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Thanks,
Mike

"Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex,
and more violent.  It takes a touch of genius -- and a lot of courage --
to move in the opposite direction."

* Albert Einstein 1879 - 1955
    US German-born Theoretical Physicist
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