In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Philippe Troin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, 08 Jan 1997 15:42:27 +0100 Gertjan Klein ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) > wrote:
>> One of my most serious criticisms is the fact that in spite of the >> dependencies being known, packages aren't installed in the right order. >> If package 1 depends on package 2, then package 2 *must* be installed >> *first*. This isn't done; I consider this a bug, that should be >> reported. > Not a bug. What you describe is pre-dependencies. It's a bit too long > to explain here, but you can find all the details in the Debian > policy manual. > Dpkg does the work right... so far. Interesting. I looked in /usr/doc/debian, and found no policy manual. I finally found a policy.html _directory_ in /usr/doc/dpkg; I read all the files in it and couldn't find "all the details" there... But perhaps there already is a misunderstanding, as you're talking about dpkg, and I was talking about dselect. (Or maybe I don't understand the interaction between the two). Dselect knows the dependancies between the packages it has to install, and should should present them to dpkg in the right order. I don't want to start word games here, but in my opinion a bug is an unintended or undesired feature. I can hardly imagine the debian developers finding it desirable to present an unexpecting installer with lots of error messages about dependancies, but if they do, I urge them to reconsider this point of view. Gertjan. -- Gertjan Klein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> The Boot Control home page: http://www.xs4all.nl/~gklein/bcpage.html -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
