Re: why does apt want to install this?
On Fri, Oct 05, 2001 at 07:16:52AM -0400, Michael P. Soulier wrote:
> So I'm about to do a dist-upgrade on Sid again, and I'm wondering
> why apt wants to install
>
> The following NEW packages will be installed:
> bonobo libbonobo2 vim
>
> Doing an apt-cache depends on bonobo, I can't see why it would want it.
'apt-cache depends' is the wrong way round, as you need reverse
dependencies. Try 'apt-cache showpkg'.
> Furthermore, libbonobo2 _replaces_ bonobo, so why is it installing bonobo?
No, libbonobo2 replaces bonobo (<< 0.37-4). All that means is that some
files moved from bonobo to libbonobo2 in that version.
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Colin Watson [cjwatson@flatline.org.uk]
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