[wpkg-users] Virtual package?

[heiko.helmle at horiba.com]

> 
> There's some way to build a ''virtual'' package 'libreoffice' that
> depend on 'libreoffice-still' *OR* 'libreoffice-fresh', so i can set my
> dependency to 'libreoffice' and install my preferred version?
> 

AFAIK DPKG doesn't have "real" virtual packages. It's just an empty 
package that just contains metadata (depends, recommends, suggests...)

You can kinda do this with WPKG too - just be aware that dependencies in 
WPKG are always hard and not versioned (if you change a 'depend' without 
bumping the revision, WPKG will pick it up anyway).

I'm not sure if <depend> can be made conditional (with included 
<condition>) - but if it does then you might be able to cook some soft 
dependencies out of this.
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