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Re: possible feature



On Sat, Jul 28, 2001 at 05:18:33PM -0700, Jeff Kyllo wrote:
> I'm curious if anyone has thought about adding the ability to have aliases
> for rpms once they are installed.  For instance, I currently have openssl
> and openssl-devel installed from the Polish(ed) distribution.  I have an
> rpm which requires libopenssl1 from Mandrake Cooker.  openssl-devel and
> libopenssl1(-devel), in theory, provide the same things.  In this case,
> rather than having to use --nodeps, I'd like to be able to set up an
> alias.  If this is already possible, I appologize for the post, otherwise,
> would it be a considered feature?

Already possible:

Provides: <feature name>

In your case, <feature name> = <alias>

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