Re: apt doesn't handle properly the depends field or I'm missing something?
On 2004-07-24 Fabio Tranchitella <kobold@kobold.it> wrote:
> Hi, maybe I'm missing something (so please don't flog me :)) but I think
> apt doesn't handle properly the Depends field.
> Here there is an example, gallery depends on:
> >> Depends: apache | apache-ssl | apache-perl, ...
> On my machine I haven't installed any of them, so if I run apt-get it
> installs apache (which is the rule? It takes the first?):
Correct. the first one.
[...]
> If I really want to install gallery and apache-ssl and I really don't
> want apache I have to run apt-get install as follows:
> # apt-get install gallery apache-ssl apache-
"apt-get install apache-ssl gallery" would also work.
> I'm missing something or this is an apt bug?
http://bugs.debian.org/122304
cu andreas
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