Bug#283705: Processed: Re: Bug#283668: aptitude: installs libc5 with kernel-source-2.6.8

[GOTO Masanori <gotom@debian.or.jp>]

At Wed, 1 Dec 2004 13:08:41 -0500,
Daniel Burrows wrote:
> On Wednesday 01 December 2004 04:07 am, GOTO Masanori wrote:
> > Hmm... gcc provides c-compiler, so "gcc | c-compiler" may be over
> > description.  I don't know this workaround for only aptitude is fine
> > or not.  Any comments?
> 
>   The problem is that when an apt tool encounters a request to install a 
> pure-virtual package, it picks an arbitrary "real" package that provides the 
> virtual package.  So, eg, if you say:
> 
> Depends: c-compiler

Recommends: ?

>   In this case, libc6-dev only Recommends c-compiler, so only apt frontends 
> that honor Recommends will be affected.  The only "aptitude-specific" thing 
> here is that aptitude honors Recommends and many other apt frontends ignore 
> them.
> 
>   I don't know what dselect does with an ambiguous recommendation like this; I 
> suppose it probably gives the user a huge list of packages and says "pick one 
> to make things consistent".

OK, I put "Recommends: gcc | c-compiler".

Regards,
-- gotom