Simon Michael <simon at joyful.com> wrote:
> > (note: If you go this route you will also start looking for using
> > booleans so you would really have liked to say:
> >     Apple 1.1 depends on Banana 1.0 and (Orange 1.0 or Orange 1.1)
> > ...which is what Debian's package system does. Personally I do not want
> 
> Debian allows you to say: Apple 1.1 depends on Orange >=1.0. This is 
> frequently used in practice.

I know - and I don't like it. :) The medicine I propose is instead to
only point at versions that you KNOW works and then I have described a
mechanism I call backwards compatibility level, see other posts on that.

Which represents what we KNOW, instead of simply guessing. :)

regards, Göran