On Wed, 2002-05-22 at 10:39, Amy Tanner wrote: > On Tue, May 21, 2002 at 07:09:34PM -0400, seth vidal (skvidal@xxxxxxxxxxxx) wrote: > > On Tue, 2002-05-21 at 18:45, Jose Borges Ferreira wrote: > > > Debian has that for a long time. And now Conectiva have ported the > > > wonderful APT :D > > > > > > Just give a look at http://apt.freshrpms.net/ . It does what you > > > describe : "packages as you need". > > > > > > With alternatives intruduced in 7.3 this will work even better. This is > > > very powerful beacause you'll have a package call mta which can be > > > provided by sendmail,postfix,qmai,exim,etc and combining that with an > > > application that automaticlly satisfy your dependencies this will be > > > great > > > > > > > Does apt handle file-dependencies and obsoletes in rpm? > > Yes. For example, if you want to install a package that requires 1 or > more other packages to be installed, apt will download and install the > other packages as well. > no, thats not what I asked. file depends. Not explicit depends. packageX requires /usr/bin/foobar does apt list every file in the package in its packages.gz file? in other words can it properly work with a file dependency that is not an explicit package dependency? last time i heard it could not. -sv
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