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| From | "Jonathan Dowland" <jmtd@debian.org> |
|---|---|
| Newsgroups | linux.debian.user |
| Subject | Re: Metapackaging |
| Date | 2024-08-21 13:00 +0200 |
| Message-ID | <JdReh-6xH6-3@gated-at.bofh.it> (permalink) |
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On Tue Aug 20, 2024 at 1:55 PM BST, Greg Wooledge wrote: > You're saying that you use equivs to create packages that have the SAME > NAMES as Debian packages?? That's entirely the point of it, surely. You want to convince the packaging system that you have dependency $FOO satisfied, even if you don't. You create an "equivalent" metapackage. As it happens I haven't used it for years, and if I had the need, I'd probably hand-craft a package source, because that's easier to me than figuring out the equivs incantations (which is exactly why I envisaged a better UX). I last looked at it seriously when I wrote game-data-packager, which does something in the same space, in 2006 (I had to look that up). -- Please do not CC me for listmail. 👱🏻 Jonathan Dowland ✎ jmtd@debian.org 🔗 https://jmtd.net
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