Hi!

Stephen Pair <stephen at pairhome.net> wrote:
[SNIP]
> It's important to note that the "requires" clause in my notation is 
> simply a name...the requirement is not tied to an specific package or 
> package name...it is only a name.  It's the configuration that 
> determines what package and version will actually get used to satisfy 
> the "requires" clause.

Hmmm. It is nice that you agree with this simple model (no boolean
algebra, no >= etc, not having this info inside the package, ability to
have multiple configs).

But what are the advantage of these names and these requires clauses? I
would like to understand that.

> - Stephen

regards, Göran