[Distutils] [Python-Dev] How we can get rid of eggs for 2.6 and beyond

[Phillip J. Eby]

At 05:45 PM 3/25/2008 +0000, Luis Bruno wrote:
>Phillip J. Eby escreveu:
> > Of course, one possible solution is for both A and B to depend on a
> > "virtual package" that contains C, such that both A and B can install
> > it if it's not there, and list it in their dependencies.
>No need. Is this is what you want?
>http://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ap-pkg-diversions.html

No.  Even aside from the fact that it is debian-specific, it is not 
intended for the use case of a symmetrically-shared and duplicated file.