On Mon, Oct 02, 2006 at 12:31:28PM -0700, Kevin B. McCarty wrote: [...]
> The trick here is that the -vesa package Provides "xserver-xorg-video". > So if you install xserver-xorg-video-vesa FIRST, then xserver-xorg's > dependency on "xserver-xorg-video-all | xserver-xorg-video" is satisfied > without APT having to pull in xserver-xorg-video-all (a meta-package > that, as its name says, pulls in every video driver). Is it really true that apt-get (or aptitude) doesn't realise that a dependency has been satisfied if the package that satisfies it is listed later in the command line? That doesn't sound very clever. Or is there a good reason for it? -- David Jardine "Running Debian GNU/Linux and loving every minute of it." -L. von Sacher-M.(1835-1895) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
