[ moved to debian-dpkg, debian-project is for non-technical stuff ] Bernhard R. Link wrote:
Which problem? dpkg is quite good in that regard: just give it a number of .deb files to install and unless there are any Pre-Depends (which usual non-system packages should not have), dpkg will sort out the order to unpack/configure stuff.
No, this is not always true. I support most Bernard's points against this proposal.