On Debian and Fedora experiences

[Horst H. von Brand]

Callum Lerwick <seg at haxxed.com> wrote:
> On Thu, 2006-12-07 at 15:35 -0900, Jeff Spaleta wrote:
> >                                                        Whereas
> > with Suggests/Recommends there would be no way for the package
> > management system to know if a user already has one of the
> > applications installed that can be used to fill that function.
> > Virtual provides solve the problem of choice among equals...
> > suggests/recommends do not.  I see no reason to implement a
> > Suggests/Recommends in this situation, from an end-user perspective.

> .deb can handle this:

RPM can handle alternative packages offering the same functionality, as
Jeff just explained.

.deb handles Suggests/Recommends, but that is another dimension.
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