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

[rupert THURNER]

On Thu, May 21, 2009 at 20:05, Mike Watters <mwatters at opencsw.org> wrote:
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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
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>> But how is that even processable?
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>> 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.
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> apt and yum do almost ZERO configuration for users.

would it be a lot of effort to replace pkgutil with apt? i especially
like the remove parts, the dist features, and wajig as quite
comfortable command line interface.

e.g. wajig purge, wajig purge-orphans, ...

rupert.