On Tue, 25 Apr 2000, Andrew Weiss wrote: > I have been using Debian since the old A.out days of Debian 1.0, and I was > wondering since I am doing development of our company's own Linux > distribution based on Debian... I have potato as the base and am beginning > to customize and modify it, but haven't really yet... other than Windowmaker > graphics and WDM graphics.. > > Is it OK to carefully modify /var/lib/dpkg/status?
I've modified it once, don't remember exactly what, but it was a dependency conflict that I had to solve. > KDE stuff wouldn't go > on because it wanted stdc++2.9, and it was too stupid to realize 2.10 was > newer... I had to force each and every kde package... it worked too, but I > gave up on keeping kde because every time I wanted to add new packages it > wanted to kill kde. Why don't you install libstdc++2.9? I have both 2.9 and 2.10 installed (with KDE depending on 2.9) and have no dependency problem.
