I am now on an Intel platform, and my dpkg says: >Package: netbase >Priority: standard >Section: base >Installed-Size: 1069 >Maintainer: Anthony Towns <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Architecture: i386 >Version: 3.16-7 >Replaces: netstd (<< 3.00) ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ >Depends: tcpd, libc6 (>= 2.1) ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ >Suggests: cpp, debconf ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ >Conflicts: xinetd (<= 2.2.1-8), debconf (<< 0.2.34) ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ >Filename: dists/unstable/main/binary-i386/base/netbase_3.16-7.deb >Size: 503568 >MD5sum: 4f694d71f17a771d106d751caf37078c >Description: Basic TCP/IP networking binaries > In order to make use of the network you need a few tools to > configure it. This package contains all the necessary tools > to configure the networking interfaces, to setup the routing > tables and to start other services using the inetd server.
Why is that, generally speaking, powerpc and intel packages have different dependencies? Sergio