Conflict again ;)

Eric Sandall eric at sandall.us
Mon Oct 17 20:35:17 UTC 2005


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On Mon, 17 Oct 2005, Eric Sandall wrote:
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> What about setting up a method to have 'providers'? Say espgs,
> ghostscript, Aladdin's Ghostscript, etc. can provide "GHOSTSCRIPT" and
> then have packages that need /some/ "ghostscript" depend on
> "GHOSTSCRIPT", which would then ask the user which of the providers of
> GHOSTSCRIPT they'd like to use, defaulting to one of the installed
> ones, if any.

Apparently this is called 'aliasing' in Lunar. ;) Sorry for my
ignorance of the terminology.

- -sandalle

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