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Re: Uninstallable Packages



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>>>>> "Anthony" == Anthony Towns <aj@azure.humbug.org.au> writes:

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    Anthony> Hello world,

    Anthony> I'm experimenting with a script to work out whether packages are
    Anthony> installable or not. I figured the world at large might be interested in
    Anthony> some of the results.

    Anthony> The following packages are not installable (ie, their Depends:,
    Anthony> Recommends:, and Conflicts: can't be concurrently satisfied) using i386
    Anthony> packages from main, contrib, non-free, and non-US/*.

Very nice... now if only dinstall would reject installing packages
that are uninstallable (has been the case repeatedly... often the
necessary package depended upon *is* in Incoming)

In other words: could you teach dinstall to check this?

*grrmml*

Bye, J 

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