"Francois" == Francois Gouget?= <us-ascii> writes: Francois> (a rather bad name imho), not perl. perl-base Francois> replaces perl which I guess means it provides Francois> it (once the install worked out ok). Or maybe Francois> the package perl provides perl because it is Francois> called perl then.
Packages do indeed "provide" themselves, this doesn't have to be explictly stated. And counterintuitively, "replaces" means it gets to overwrite some files that belongs to perl, not that it actually replaces perl -- that would be "providing" it. ;-) --------------------- PGP E4 70 6E 59 80 6A F5 78 63 32 BC FB 7A 08 53 4C __ _ Debian GNU Johnie Ingram <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> mm mm / /(_)_ __ _ ___ __ "netgod" irc.debian.org mm mm / / | | '_ \| | | \ \/ / m m m / /__| | | | | |_| |> < Yes, I'm Linus, and I am your God. mm mm \____/_|_| |_|\__,_/_/\_\ -- Linus, keynote address, Expo 98 GO BLUE -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
