Re: [Helidelinux-devel] Dependency management for software packaging

[Hui Z. <zh...@wa...>]

On Wed, Mar 10, 2004 at 06:30:09PM +0000, Rolf Veen wrote:
> It can be done in a simple manner.
> 
> --
> pkg postfix
> 
> provides mta
> --
> 
> Any name that appears in the 'provides' field is added to the list of
> installed packages, nothing more. A few lines more in your package
> manager. There are some packages that have more than one option: java,
> httpd, pop3 servers, etc.

That's an excellent idea. For a system that installed mta of some
kind, one should always be able to query the package manager to find
out the details such as which mta package is actually installed.

-Hui