On Mon, Jun 25, 2001 at 09:56:00PM -0700, Thomas Bushnell, BSG wrote:
> Anthony Towns <aj@azure.humbug.org.au> writes:
> > Are you sure this is the cause of the perl upgrade mess though? Apt tries
> > to immediately configure essential packages wherever possible, afaik, which
> > means Depends: generally end up the same as Pre-Depends: anyway, no?
> I'm using apt.
Yes, I know. What I was saying was that for apt upgrades, Depends and
Pre-Depends from essential packages are effectively equivalent. So there
was probably some other cause to your problem.
Cheers,
aj
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