On Fri, Jul 18, 2003 at 10:45:02AM +0800, Dan Jacobson wrote: > I see mawk is a required package, but I have replaced it with gawk. > Why isn't there some meta package called awk, where either mawk or > gawk will satisfy it? There is, the virtual package 'awk', provided by mawk, gawk and original-awk. Please stop your incessant complaining about problems which do not exist. -- - mdz