Re: [RFC] Changing APT to pre-depend on ${shlibs:Depends}
On Thu, 28 Apr 2011, Julian Andres Klode wrote:
> On Do, 2011-04-28 at 09:42 +0200, Julien Cristau wrote:
> > On Thu, Apr 28, 2011 at 09:18:05 +0200, Julian Andres Klode wrote:
> >
> > > We do count situations like
> > > http://lists.debian.org/deity/2011/04/msg00154.html
> > >
> > > <676992.81078.qm@web26502.mail.ukl.yahoo.com>
> > >
> > That seems silly. They broke their system using dpkg -i, they can fix
> > it with dpkg -i.
> While that's possible, there is no reason this has to be the case. And
> depending on the situation, this may require users to fetch multiple
> packages which is not easy without APT (or other package managers).
>
> Ensuring that APT always works unless a library is broken or the user
> used dpkg with --force seems to be useful.
+1, I have seen multiple times recommendation to do "dpkg -i foo.deb" and
then "apt-get -f install" to pick up the missing dependencies.
Someone trying this with APT would at least be stopped soon enough
if apt had the Pre-Depends.
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