Re: solution for BC breakage
| From: | Jan Schneider | Date: | Tue, 16 Sep 2003 13:18:08 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: solution for BC breakage | ||
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Zitat von Greg Beaver <greg@chiaraquartet.net>:
> Hi,
>
> The answer to the problem of BC is to create a new dependency relation
> called majorversion
>
> <dep type="pkg" rel="majorversion"
> version="1">MDB</dep>
>
> This can be coupled with another dependency if a particular minor
> version is needed
>
> <dep type="pkg" rel="majorversion"
> version="1">MDB</dep>
> <dep type="pkg" rel="ge" version="1.5">MDB</dep>
>
> Comments?
What would we gain over the current version relation if it still isn't
possible to intall two major versions next to each other?
Jan.
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