On Sat, Dec 11, 1999 at 01:09:29AM -0800, Chris Waters wrote: > Here's a thought: the system should actually *pre*-depend on packages > that are required by the packaging system itself. But essential > packages are treated (at least by dpkg) as universal dependencies, not > universal pre-dependencies.
What happens if a new version of dpkg has two versioned predeps that declare each other as predeps? (Yes, this does seem rather a contrived situation, but it is an extreme -- are there less extreme situations that are more plausible? How does dpkg handle such things now? :) Just curious more than anything else... -- Seth Arnold | http://www.willamette.edu/~sarnold/ Hate spam? See http://maps.vix.com/rbl/ for help Hi! I'm a .signature virus! Copy me into your ~/.signature to help me spread!
