Re: Brain dead package management?

["Michael S. Peek" <peek@tiem.utk.edu>]

martin f krafft wrote:

> also sprach Michael S. Peek <peek@tiem.utk.edu> [2006.09.01.1953 +0200]:
>  
>
> > > tiem-cups-cfg: PreDepends: cupsys-bsd but it is not installable
> > >      
>
> There's your problem. APT is made for software packages, not
> configuration packages. Use cfengine or puppet for those. Or ucf or
> something.
>
> Since you PreDepend on cupsys-bsd, APT tries to pull it in at such
> an early stage that it hasn't even looked at the lpr_ yet.
>
>  
Whoo-hoo!  That seems to be the key to the whole problem.  If I make two 
passes, saving the second pass just for my custom tiem-* packages, then 
it works.

Still, not being smart enough to realize that lpr needs to be removed in 
order to satisfy the cupsys-bsd pre-dependency sounds kinda like a bug 
to me.

Thanks,

Michael Peek