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Re: aborting installation of a package in the preinst



Previously Darren/Torin/Who Ever... wrote:
> If there isn't another way to tell dpkg to not continue with unpacking
> the dependent packages, I'll have to change it to just an alert notice
> since I wouldn't want to have someone have the perl-5.005 packages
> unpacked but not configured.  That would be icky.

No, what you want seem to be pre-dependencies. Depends are only checked
at configure-time, after a packages has been unpacked.

Wichert.

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