On Wed, Mar 31, 1999 at 06:36:44PM -0400, Adrian Lopez wrote: > I would like to freely customise my system without causing package > dependency problems. The best solution I can think of is to be able to > "dummy install" any package that is not considered to be "critical".
Package: equivs Priority: extra Section: admin Installed-Size: 37 Maintainer: Martin Bialasinski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Architecture: all Version: 1.999.3 Depends: debhelper, dpkg-dev, make, libtricks | fakeroot Filename: dists/unstable/main/binary-i386/admin/equivs_1.999.3.deb Size: 9358 MD5sum: 6c887b2c0686115052e9ad5bc55a05b1 Description: Circumventing Debian package dependencies This is a dummy package which can be used to create Debian packages, which only contain dependency information. . This way, you can make the Debian package management system believe that equivalents to packages on which other packages do depend on are actually installed. . Another possibility is creation of a meta package. When this package contains a dependency as "Depends: a, b, c", then installing this package will also select packages a, b and c. Instead of "Depends", you can also use "Recommends:" or "Suggests:" for less demanding dependency. . Please note that this is a crude hack and if thoughtlessly used might possibly do damage to your packaging system. And please note as well that using it is not the recommended way of dealing with broken dependencies. Better file a bug report instead. -- `Rhubarb is no Egyptian god.' Debian http://www.debian.org finger brinkmd@ Marcus Brinkmann GNU http://www.gnu.org master.debian.org [EMAIL PROTECTED] for public PGP Key http://homepage.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/Marcus.Brinkmann/ PGP Key ID 36E7CD09
