On Ma, 12 iul 11, 00:33:18, shawn wilson wrote: > i'm not the op (obviously) however, would it be possible to override a > package's dependancies using apt-file with specific prerequisites? ie, > if i wanted to tell every package that required libc6 to go ahead and > install ignoring libc6 (knowing that i'd eventually break every new > package) could i? > > ps, fork this thread if there's a line of discussion, but i'm pretty > sure i know the answer. just thought it would be cool and figured i'd > confirm (and it's going along his same thought i think)
For the archives: not sure about apt (definitely not apt-file, that is for searching specific files), but dpkg does have the options your think of. As usual 'man dpkg' is a good start ;) Regards, Andrei -- Offtopic discussions among Debian users and developers: http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/d-community-offtopic
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