On Sat, Jan 02, 2010 at 11:32:00AM +0900, David Cournapeau wrote:
[snip] - supporting different variants of the same package in the dependency graph at install time
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The second issue is more challenging. It complicates the dependency handling quite a bit, and may cause difficult situations to happen at dependency resolution time. This becomes particularly messy if you mix packages you build yourself with packages grabbed from a repository. I wonder if there is a simpler solution which would give a similar feature set.
AFAICT, in Debian, the same feature is given via virtual packages: you would have: python-matplotlib python-matplotlib-basemap for instance. It is interesting to note that the same source package may be used to generate both binary, end-user, packages. And happy new year! Gaƫl