Just use "--force-depends". It overrides package dependancies.
At 12:59 PM 5/7/00 -0600, elyograg wrote:
>How hard is it to create "fake" packages? What I'm after is this: A
>package that will "lie" to the system with a "provides: httpd" line or
>"provides: mail-transport-agent" or something
Hi
On Sun, May 07, 2000 at 12:59:43PM -0600, elyograg wrote:
> I would actually like to see a predefined set of packages like this -- call
> them "liar-httpd" or something similar. :)
Seems you're searching for the equivs package.
MfG/Regards, Alexander
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> As long as I'm making wish lists, I had another idea... and I suppose I
> could implement this in perl - have a way to rifle through available
> packages and list everything that provides a certain function. Very often
try grep-available (in the grep-dctrl package).
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