Re: Window managers

[James Henstridge <james daa com au>]

RPM does contain the requires A or B type dependencies.  Packages A and B
would have to provide a virtual package (say gnome-compliant-wm), and then
gnome would require the virtual package.

James.

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On Tue, 27 Apr 1999, Richard Hult wrote:

> 
> > > RedHat has chosen to do it this way, to make sure that the user always
> > > have at least one gnome-compliant window manager. There has been variuos
> > > discussions here on this matter.
> > 
> > Yes, I can see the reasoning behind this.  RPM doesn't have a requires "A
> > or B" feature does it?  If not, another way to do it is to have the
> > installation for both Window Manager and E (they're both part of the
> > RedHat distro) touch a file, and then the Gnome installation checks for
> 
> Yes, I agree with you. That's a good idea, and that came up the last time
> this issue was discussed. I don't remember exactly what happened, but it
> seems as the idea wasn't picked up, unfortunately.
> 
> Richard
> 
> 
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