On Fri, Feb 22, 2008 at 05:49:32PM +0100, David Paleino wrote: > Il giorno Fri, 22 Feb 2008 15:30:48 +0100 > Michael Koch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ha scritto: > > > On Fri, Feb 22, 2008 at 02:54:20PM +0100, David Paleino wrote: > > > Il giorno Fri, 22 Feb 2008 10:04:52 -0300 > > > Otavio Salvador <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ha scritto: > > > > > > > As I said, for APT, the order has meaning _always_. > > > > > > > > apt-get install foo bar > > > > > > > > Is completely different of > > > > > > > > apt-get install bar foo > > > > > > Could you please elaborate on this? I know for sure that Pre-Depends > > > exists > > > just for the cases where order _does_ matter. But I've never had problems > > > in > > > installing packages in any order (or probably I've just been lucky). > > > > You should re-read about Pre-Depends again. It's not about the order. > > Could you please explain? > > /--- Policy 3.5 > | Sometimes, a package requires another package to be installed and > | configured before it can be installed. In this case, you must specify a > | Pre-Depends entry for the package. > \--- > > /--- Policy 7.2 > | Pre-Depends > | > | This field is like Depends, except that it also forces dpkg to complete > | installation of the packages named before even starting the installation of > | the package which declares the pre-dependency, as follows: [..] > \--- > > So, what did I miss? This *is* about *order*. A Pre-Depends is used to declare > a dependency needed for the preinst scripts, for example. > > I might understand that what the OP complains about is something similar to: > > Depends: unrar-free | unrar > > obviously here the order *does* matter, since in this case the DFSG-free > package would be chosen, in alphabetical order it would not. > > Would you please clarify what you meant? I'm kind of confused now.
What I meant was that Pre-Depends exists because of the reason you described above and not just to get dependencies installed before the other dependencies in Depends. Cheers, Michael -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
