Bug#771759: allow installation besides discount
Jonas Smedegaard
dr at jones.dk
Tue Dec 2 10:11:55 UTC 2014
Quoting Antoine Beaupré (2014-12-02 05:12:16)
> I wish it could be possible to install libtext-markdown-perl next to
> discount. However, but discount conflicts with libtext-markdown-perl
> because the latter installs a `markdown` binary, which is a little
> surprising considering how it's "supposed" to be a perl library and is
> mostly used as such in dependencies.
>
> It seems to me the markdown binary could be easily split off into a
> separate binary package, and that package could provide the `markdown`
> dependency that packages that really need the binary could depend on,
> which could then be provided by discount, pandoc, etc...
>
> Otherwise an alternatives system may be implemented.
This sounds like a perfect use of alternatives.
None of those packages provide the default markdown reference
implementation, so probably should both provide a lower rate
alternative, with the reference implementation providing the highest
one.
- Jonas
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