Subject: Re: Proposal on Small shared libs

From: [email-masked] (Heiko Schlittermann)
Date: Sat, 29 Jun 1996 19:22:01 +0200 (MET DST)

Christian Hudon wrote:
: 
: >         dpkg --install --autoresolve xv*deb
: > 
: > would install all needed x11 files (since xv needs x11) plus
: > all the other dependencies and requirements needed to run xv.
: 
: Errm... Meaning you'd want dpkg to select the right x-server package for
: you? <grin> More seriously, I'd be very wary of trying to make dpkg too
: smart. Especially since dselect already deals with these problems pretty
: well. 

... you're right, as I thought quite a bit longer about that proposal,
dselect handles it fairly well and dpkg is already complex enought.

Heiko
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