On Friday 22 May 2009 03:43:32 am David wrote: > But, like I said before, I don't know if this is exactly how it works. > The above is mostly my theory based on observations of aptitude's > behavior.
I think this would be Debian's case of Deep Magic...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voodoo_programming
str->str_pok |= SP_FBM; /* deep magic */
s = (unsigned char*)(str->str_ptr); /* deeper magic */
--Larry Wall in util.c from the perl source code
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