On Fri, Aug 24, 2007 at 05:29:40PM +0200, Klaas Gadeyne <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was
heard to say:
> On Thu, 23 Aug 2007, Daniel Burrows wrote:
> > I notice that aptitude isn't actually installing apache -- it looks
> >like something is dragging in libapache-mod-php4, which depends on
> >apache-common.
Just to clarify: apache-common is a 3MB package that's required by
apache modules. It isn't the apache server itself, and it won't hurt
AFAIK to have it installed (although it probably indicates that you have
some packages you don't need).
> > What's the output if you pass -D on the command-line or type "D"
> >at the prompt?
[snip lots]
It looks to me like this is what's happening:
horde3 Recommends: php4-gd | php5-gd | php4-gd2
php4-gd Depends: phpapi-20050606+lfs,
provided by libapache-mod-php4, libapache2-mod-php4, ...
libapache-mod-php4 Depends: apache-common
There's at least one bug here: packages shouldn't depend directly
on a virtual package, since then apt will select a package to fulfill
the dependency somewhat randomly. php4-gd should, e.g., depend on
"libapache2-mod-php4 | phpapi-20050606+lfs".
You can work around this by listing libapache2-mod-php4 first on the
command-line:
aptitude install libapache2-mod-php4+M horde3
The +M tells aptitude to flag the package as automatically installed
immediately.
> >Do you get different results if you pass --without-recommends as a
> >command-line option?
>
> Yes, that seems to do the trick!
Not surprising given the analysis above.
> It seems like I might to add the --without-recommends into apt.conf.
You could do this, and some people will recommend it. Personally, I
don't like doing this; ignoring recommends can leave packages broken
without manual tweaking. I find it to be easier to install recommends
by default and manually drop anything I don't want.
Daniel
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