[Dbconfig-common-devel] Re: dbconfig-common - short question

[Karsten Hilbert]

On Sun, Feb 12, 2006 at 02:55:35PM -0500, sean finney wrote:

> i think they would not be very receptive to the idea, as i think
> it would work against the way the entire reasonable stable and
> explainable interrelatinships work with the dpkg/apt tools...
> my guess is that their response would be "either you need the
> package or you don't.  if you can live without the package
> then it should be a Recommends/Suggests.
Well, well, but the situation is different: It's not whether
you can live without the package. It's that you need
*either/or*.

Any chance a package can *abort* it's installation ? One
could then add the -server package as a Requires but then
ask in that -server package whether a local or remote server
is wanted. If the latter the package could test for the
remote server and abort itself and do as if everything went
well *evil grin*

Karsten
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