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Date: Tue, 9 Apr 2002 21:47:03 -0400
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On Tue, Apr 09, 2002 at 09:43:54PM -0400, Charles Wilson wrote:
>>If it is upset I'll be upset.
>>
>>It should be acceptable to have bin without source.
>>
>>If it causes a problem, I'll fix it.
>
>That's great.  (I'm not planning on needlessly changing my packages, but 
>perhaps the next time they must be updated for other reasons, I'll drop 
>the psuedo-src packages).
>
>However, is there any way we can add to the setup/upset grammar an 
>optional keyword like:
>
>(within libncurses6's setup.hint)
>   external-src: ncurses
>
>This would require conflict avoidance within setup.exe, too -- the src 
>chkboxes for ncurses and libncurses6 should be tied together in this case...
>
>Or is this just not worth worrying about?

I like the idea as far as upset is concerned.  It would be easy to add.

However, maybe the setup.exe part would be hairy.

cgf