On Mon, Aug 21, 2000 at 02:01:21AM -0700, John L. Fjellstad wrote:
> Well, the problem was that I wanted to install qmail from the author's
> pristine sources, so it couldn't really be under dpkg management.
>
> Basically, I needed equivs to satisfy the dependencies.
>
> What was weird is, you ca
On Mon, Aug 21, 2000 at 02:12:17AM +0200, Florian Friesdorf wrote:
> There are programs, like mutt, that depend on a smtp-mailer-daemon.
> You installed exim to satisfy this dependency. Now if you prefer using qmail
> instead of exim, just install qmail, and afaik exim will be automatically
> r
On Mon, Aug 21, 2000 at 02:12:17AM +0200, Florian Friesdorf wrote:
>
> There are programs, like mutt, that depend on a smtp-mailer-daemon.
> You installed exim to satisfy this dependency. Now if you prefer using qmail
> instead of exim, just install qmail, and afaik exim will be automatically
>
On Sun, Aug 20, 2000 at 03:40:09PM -0700, John L. Fjellstad wrote:
> Well, take this 'problem' I recently had. I just upgraded from RedHat
> to Debian. My /home directory was kept, and the rest blown away. Anyways,
> I ran into a problem with during the configuration (after installation),
> and be
On Sun, Aug 20, 2000 at 07:48:10PM +0100, Mark Brown wrote:
> You don't want to avoid something that is an actual dependancy.
Well, take this 'problem' I recently had. I just upgraded from RedHat
to Debian. My /home directory was kept, and the rest blown away. Anyways,
I ran into a problem with
On Sun, Aug 20, 2000 at 11:07:24AM -0700, John L. Fjellstad wrote:
> So, how do you avoid dependencies in apt-get? Or doesn't apt-get
You don't want to avoid something that is an actual dependancy.
> install recommended packages? If that's the case, how do you make it
> install recommended and
On Sat, Aug 19, 2000 at 04:26:26PM -0800, Ethan Benson wrote:
> personally i just use apt-get as much as possible and dselect as
> little as possible.
So, how do you avoid dependencies in apt-get? Or doesn't apt-get
install recommended packages? If that's the case, how do you make it
install
On Sat, Aug 19, 2000 at 04:26:26PM -0800,
Ethan Benson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> personally i just use apt-get as much as possible and dselect
> as little as possible.
I agree, but sometimes it's nice to have that full-screen
interface. That's why i *love* console-apt. It's so nice i use it
for
On Sat, Aug 19, 2000 at 02:02:16PM -0400, Daniel Barclay wrote:
>
> Why is it so hard to decline a "recommends" dependency?
[snip dselect experience we have all had]
> AGH! I have declined the recommendation. WHY WON'T DESELECT
> JUST SHUT THE FUCK UP!
Reccommends == Depends as far as dselect
Why is it so hard to decline a "recommends" dependency?
In dselect (using the apt method), if I select a package A that
recommends a package B, dselect switches to the dependency-
resolution screen with package B selected.
If I simply deselect B and exit normally (with Return), dselect
retur
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