> > Date: Thu, 12 Sep 1996 11:19:55 -0400
> > From: "Brian C. White" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> >
> > Apparently, until "ld.so" is configured "libc5" won't install, and if
> > "libc5" insn't configured then perl breaks. After which nothing will
> > install.
> >
> > I believe this just happened to me with dpkg-ftp as well.
>
> It sounds like dpkg-ftp and dftp don't respect pre-depends? That would
> be extremely bad.
It is not the responsibility of either "dpkg-ftp" or "dftp" to handle
pre-depends in this case. Since all of the relavent packages were passed
to "dpkg" at the same time, it is it's responsibility to ensure that
package unpacking and configuring happens in the correct order.
Brian
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