Packaging and Delivering Software With the Image Packaging System in Oracle® Solaris 11.2

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Updated: July 2014
 
 
Chapter 4

Specifying Package Dependencies

Dependencies define how packages are related. This chapter explains the different types of IPS dependencies and how they can be used to construct working software systems.

IPS provides a variety of different dependency types as discussed in Depend Actions. This chapter provides more detail about how each dependency type can be used to control the software that is installed.