On Tue, Jul 07, 2009 at 11:07:55AM -0700, Dario Teixeira wrote:
> having an order-preserving Ocamlbuild would be moot if findlib
> supported some sort of virtual packages).

Can you explain that? I don't see why virtual packages can resolve
ordering problems.

(Following your analogy, the same problems exist with Debian packages:
if you have pre-dependencies which force an order among packages, you
cannot fix that by resorting to virtual packages.)

Cheers.

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