Re: broken deps on libglide2-v3
On Sun, 30 Jan 2000, Marques Johansson wrote:
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> Today, Joseph Carter, spilled the beans:
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> JC> On Sun, Jan 30, 2000 at 01:15:25PM -0500, Marques Johansson wrote:
> JC> > libglide2-v3 depends on device3dfx-module (not available)
> JC>
> JC> This is not a bug. You have to build the kernel module from
> JC> device3dfx-source or install the equivs package and set it up properly.
> JC>
> JC> Either way, /dev/3dfx is not really an option with the voodoo3 version of
> JC> glide. That's an upstream decision, though I'm looking at undoing it if I
> JC> can.
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> At the same time, every time I do an upgrade I have to "apt-get -f
> install" which removes my libglide-v3. I then have to download the deb
> myself and dpkg -i --force-depends it. It is fairly annoying. I would
> rather the package not require anything, or if dev3dfx-source (name?)
> provided dev3dfx-module.
What is your reason for not using either of the methods joseph suggests?
Jules
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