> >>If you build things from source, dpkg won't be aware of them, therefore > >>apt will try to install them if something depends on them. > > > > From my (limited) experience with Gentoo I think it's possible to > > install something from source and tell emerge about it, so it won't try > > and install a package for it. There doesn't seem a way to do this with > > Debian; maybe manually setting the Status in /var/lib/dpkg/status ? > > There is a way to do this. > Try apt-cache show equivs.
ok, I'll look into this and see what I can do, thanks for the help. cyril -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
