At Wed, 1 Dec 2004 13:08:41 -0500, Daniel Burrows wrote: > On Wednesday 01 December 2004 04:07 am, GOTO Masanori wrote: > > Hmm... gcc provides c-compiler, so "gcc | c-compiler" may be over > > description. I don't know this workaround for only aptitude is fine > > or not. Any comments? > > The problem is that when an apt tool encounters a request to install a > pure-virtual package, it picks an arbitrary "real" package that provides the > virtual package. So, eg, if you say: > > Depends: c-compiler
Recommends: ? > In this case, libc6-dev only Recommends c-compiler, so only apt frontends > that honor Recommends will be affected. The only "aptitude-specific" thing > here is that aptitude honors Recommends and many other apt frontends ignore > them. > > I don't know what dselect does with an ambiguous recommendation like this; > I > suppose it probably gives the user a huge list of packages and says "pick one > to make things consistent". OK, I put "Recommends: gcc | c-compiler". Regards, -- gotom
