Re: [INFO] About the perl upgrade
On Thu, 29 Jul 1999, Bob Nielsen wrote:
> $ sudo apt-get remove perl
> Reading Package Lists... Done
> Building Dependency Tree... Done
> The following extra packages will be installed:
> libterm-readline-gnu-perl perl-5.005 perl-5.005-base
> libmime-base64-perl
> libdigest-md5-perl
> The following packages will be REMOVED:
> perl perl-suid
> The following NEW packages will be installed:
> perl-5.005 perl-5.005-base
> 3 packages upgraded, 2 newly installed, 2 to remove and 5 not upgraded.
> 1 packages not fully installed or removed.
> Need to get 2273kB of archives. After unpacking 6380kB will be used.
> Do you want to continue? [Y/n]
I have just tried the upgrade with dselect. I get this:
perl-5.005 recommends perl-5.005-doc (= 5.005.03-2)
perl-5.005-doc conflicts with perl-doc
perl-5.004-doc provides perl-doc
-> perl-5.004-doc will be removed
perl-5.004 recommends perl-5.004-doc (= 5.004.05-2)
-> perl-5.004 will be removed
inn depends on perl-5.004
-> inn will be removed
newsx depends on cnews or inn
-> newsx will be removed
WHY do the perl-5.x packages recommend the perl-5.x-doc packages? Why
can't they just suggest them? That would make it a lot easier for people
using dselect.
Since I am using dselect for selecting packages (with the 'apt' method to
do the real work), a 'Recommends:' is almost as forceful as a 'Depends:',
and equally annoying if it's unnecessary.
Remco
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