On Mon, 2008-06-09 at 10:35 +0300, Panu Matilainen wrote:
On Sun, 8 Jun 2008, David Timms wrote:
> It would sort of make sense to be able say in a spec:
> Provides: pirut(functionality)
> ie equivalent functionality = gui package management
> rather than the pirut(api) ?
"Pirut" is just a name and an implementation detail, you'd want something
along the lines of "Provides: package-manager-gui" similarly to httpd
providing "webserver" etc, that apps just wanting a GUI package manager
can depend on. Blindly adding provides for everything obsoleted is just
BAD, unless they actually provide a compatible interface (be it API or
command names).
Although it does make the point that we should dig out the python
auto-provides/requires and see about enabling them again. That would
then add the fact that pirut had provided a certain API which was
required by things.
Jeremy