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

[Mike Watters]

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Philip Brown wrote:
> On Thu, May 21, 2009 at 12:56:35PM -0500, Mike Watters wrote:
>>> 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
>>
> 
> But how is that even processable?
> 
> if you apt-get [somepackage], and that package
> "depends on mysql|postgres", and neither is installed...
> What happens?
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If Neither is installed it errors out normally.
if both are install it just installs.

apt and yum do almost ZERO configuration for users.

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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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