Re: repo agnostic package resolvers (was: Latest apt broken?)

On Thursday 20 January 2005 01:52, seth vidal wrote:
> And yet it makes the pkg mgmt a nightmare b/c now, instead of being
> able to key on file name I have to go find the packages the provide
> that file (or worse yet, if wildcards are involved) then figure out
> the arch for those involved and match.

How do you do "Requires: /usr/sbin/alternatives" ?  I didn't think 
wildcards were involved .. can't see an immediate use for that.  
Explicit is better than implicit on this one.

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-jeff