On Sun, Aug 20, 2000 at 07:48:10PM +0100, Mark Brown wrote: > You don't want to avoid something that is an actual dependancy.
Well, take this 'problem' I recently had. I just upgraded from RedHat to Debian. My /home directory was kept, and the rest blown away. Anyways, I ran into a problem with during the configuration (after installation), and because I had monitored this list for awhile, remembered that someone had mentioned the solution somewhere on the list. So I needed access to my mails. The problem is, I wanted to install mutt, mutt is dependent on smtp-mailer-daemon (or something like that). I was going to install qmail later, but didn't want to do it at that moment. So, basically, I ended up installing exim and mutt. Find the solution to my problem, and then uninstalling exim (I wanted to know how to break dependencies, and I found out what the package that allows that was called: equivs). > There's no way to make apt-get install anything except dependancies > automatically. You'd need to either used dselect or look at the > suggestions and recommendations and install them yourself. Isn't dselect going away? -- John______________________________________________________________________ email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Quis custodiet ipsos custodes icq: thales @ 17755648
