On Sat, 26 Oct 1996, Johannes Plass wrote: > The basic problem is that deselect doesn't allow to override > any dependencies specified by package maintainers. This, however, > is necessary since package dependencies > - may already be satisfied by local software deselect doesn't > know about. > > It would already help a lot if deselect allowed the administrator > to install a package as a "ghost" in the sense that: > - the package counts as being installed as far as deselect > is concerned. > - deselect does not attempt to unpack/install the package.
I was just about to make this same point. Couldn't one just create a package, say "locally_provided.deb", that is a near-empty deb file that provides whatever you have manually installed, like: provides: tcl-dev, news-reader, emacs I've never built a package, but wouldn't this be simple, and wouldn't it work? In my case, I manually install several programs on my Debian system that I also install and maintain at work (on Solaris and IRIX64). This lets me gain extra familiarity with the distibution package. I do this with: emacs, tcl/tk/tix, tkman, gnats, for example. For many others, I don't bother: bash, make, gzip, minicom. ...RickM... -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
