On Tue, Nov 27, 2007 at 12:27:42PM -0800, Steve Langasek wrote: > > Package: phpgroupware > Depends: apache2 | apache | httpd, php5 | php5-cgi | libapache2-mod-php5 [...] > > This doesn't force you to install apache. It just requires that you have > apache and php installed, which by default is going to pull in apache2 and > libapache2-mod-php5 if the dependency isn't previously satisfied. (The php > depends in this particular example are strange; it should probably depend > either on "php5" alone, which is a metapackage. But that doesn't change the > argument.) > Actually, your statement (about requiring apache) is not strictly true. Lots of packages which are not apache provide httpd: for i in `apt-cache search httpd |cut -f1 -d' '` ; do [ `apt-cache show $i| grep '^Provides:.*httpd' |wc -l` -gt 0 ] && apt-cache show $i |grep "^Package\|^Provides" && echo "---------"; done Regards, -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sánchez http://people.connexer.com/~roberto http://www.connexer.com
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