Re: A proposal to improve dselect
On Wed, 08 Jan 1997 15:42:27 +0100 Gertjan Klein (gklein@xs4all.nl)
wrote:
> One of my most serious criticisms is the fact that in spite of the
> dependencies being known, packages aren't installed in the right order.
> If package 1 depends on package 2, then package 2 *must* be installed
> *first*. This isn't done; I consider this a bug, that should be
> reported.
Not a bug. What you describe is pre-dependencies. It's a bit too long
to explain here, but you can find all the details in the Debian
policy manual.
Dpkg does the work right... so far.
Phil.
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