Re: pre-depends and the base archive

[david@elo.ods.com (David Engel)]

> get it to build with lots of complaints. I would have thought that
> it would sort out the order in which things should be installed when given
> a long list of packages so that pre-depends in that list would not
> be a problem, but that's not happening. Note the complaints from this

Ian Jackson will have to confirm this, but I believe dpkg doesn't do
any special ordering because of pre-depends.  You have to use dselect
if you want the packages ordered properly.

David
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