Re: Differing lists of packages?
James A. Treacy wrote:
>
> The web pages update finishes about one hour after the archive.
An hour after? Well, it seems to be fixed now, whatever I was seeing.
> You are correct, there is no package libgl1. Note that it was referred to
> as a virtual dependency (usually called a virtual package). Virtual
> packages are easiest explained by an example. A lot of packages provide
> a web browser. Instead of having to keep a long, constantly changing, list
> packages simply depend on web-browser. Any package supplying a web browser
> will 'Provides: web-browser' and thus satisfy the dependency. This same
> mechanism is use for package supplying the OpenGL api. The virtual package
> is libgl1.
I know about virtual packages. I checked yesterday and I saw no
Provides: libgl1 anywhere. However, I've checked now and it's there.
Now just have to file bugs against quake-3dfx, quake-gl and flwm to
point to it.
Martijn
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