"Joe Emenaker" <jemenake@lab.busfac.calpoly.edu> writes: > dpkg *does* seem to sometimes > enforce some package dependencies, but that has only happened to me once. That's because dselect treats recommendations as dependencies, but dpkg only treats them as suggestions. See Programmer's Manul 8.2. Guy -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to debian-user-REQUEST@lists.debian.org . Trouble? e-mail to Bruce@Pixar.com