On Friday 09 March 2007 14:02:13 Toshio Kuratomi wrote:
> I don't believe circular depenencies per se are problems. Certain
> instances are. (Someone please correct me if I'm wrong, here.) In this
> case, breaking out the dependency into a virtual provides would be the
> standard way to show that emacs-common requires one of /usr/bin/emacs-x
> or /usr/bin/emacs-nox.
>
> ### Main package is old emacs-common
> Requires: binemacs = %{version}-%{release}
>
> %package x
> Provides: binemacs = %{version}-%{release}
> Requires: %{name} = %{version}-%{release}
>
> %package nox
> Provides: binemacs = %{version}-%{release}
> Requires: %{name} = %{version}-%{release}
>
> s/binemacs/WhateverVirtualProvideStrikesYourFancy/
I thought about this, but what stopped me was I kept thinking that one would
want to set a preference in the /usr/bin/emacs file, and that would require
modification of the file, or an /etc/ file to set preference which led be
back to well, we have alternatives....
Of course, if we don't give a care what /usr/bin/emacs runs, so long as it
runs, then we could keep the script as is and use this Provides method and
move on.
--
Jesse Keating
Release Engineer: Fedora
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