On 12/09/2007, Bill Crawford billcrawford1970@gmail.com wrote:
Seriously, that's half the problem. When I want "mp3 playing" support, I have to install "xine-lib-moles" ...
A viable solution will be to use Gentoo-esque "USE flags". Tag (sub)packages with what feature they provide -- e.g. MP3, DVD playback -- and also the package(s) for which they enable this functionality.
Thus xine-lib-moles will have this:
<functionality name="mp3" for="xine-lib" />
If xine-lib is installed on your computer, and you ask for MP3 support, it will install xine-lib-moles; if not, it won't. Likewise, if you have enabled MP3 support and then later install xine-lib, it should pull in xine-lib-moles as well.
Thoughts? This could almost be fitted into Provides: / Requires:, but I don't think it actually can.
Regards,