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On 6/21/2007 5:08 PM, Brian Dessent wrote: > Steffen Sledz wrote: > >> Hmmm? I'm not sure if this is a practical solution because the old >> emacs-leim package is just obsolete, if a new emacs package is >> installed. How can i describe this inter-package dependency? > > There's no way to express any version specific requirements. Once the > old emacs package gets demoted to [prev], it becomes a second class > citizen. In order to use it the user would have to know to set 'emacs' > to [prev] as well as 'emacs-leim' to [prev] as well (you can state this > in the release announcement.) Or in other words, upgrading to the v22 > emacs package should have the effect of also uninstalling v21 > emacs-leim, which is accomplished by installing the new [curr] of both > packages. Here I'm assuming that having a v22 emacs and a v21 > emacs-leim both installed at the same time causes breakage. I don't think it causes breakage. Emacs-leim is installed in a version-specific directory (such as /usr/share/emacs/21.3.50/leim). V22 emacs won't even look there. Ken -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
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