Thierry Laronde wrote:
> 
> On Mon, May 21, 2001 at 09:20:25PM +1000, Glenn McGrath wrote:
> > Ok, im starting to see its advantages now. (i think)
> >
> > Are all the the different dependency types (pre-depends, depends,
> > conflicts, replaces, provides) represented in the one tree ?
> 
> In this system, if I'm not mistaken, there are no pre-depends. If a package
> pre-depends on another, that means that is level is higher so the package it
> predepends on will be automatically installed before.
> 

So it must be treat depends as pre-depends, i.e. all packages of a
higher level have to be configured prior to installed, rather than just
having to be unpacked.

Maybe pre-depends and depends could have their own seperate tree ?


Glenn


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