Hey,

This would for example allow us to replace a dependency
by aliasing package1 with replacement1
without forking packages(lets say for example ncurses and netbsd-curses).
Or for example removing dependencies like libX11
by aliasing it to empty character(" ")

Thanks
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XDream8

One example package manager that does this
https://github.com/venomlinux/scratchpkg/blob/master/scratchpkg.alias