Re: Virtual Packages

[Hamish Moffatt <hamish@debian.org>]

On Tue, Feb 17, 1998 at 04:00:10PM +0100, Javier Fernandez-Sanguino Pen~a wrote:
> vrml-browser	Same as www-browser but for vrml (wrl) files.
> 		Will be used by the packages vrweb and vrwave (which I
> 		maintain)
> 
> The reason for the later is so Java-based programs can just check there is
> jdk available to run with (if they do not depend on a specific version of
> jdk) just the same as c-compiler is used.

You mention that programs might want to depend on the java one, but
not on the vrml one. Will any other package depend on vrml-browser?
Is there any package that should depend on vrml-browser now?


hamish
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