Re: Debian woes

[Lawrence Chim <ychim@yallara.cs.rmit.edu.au>]

Dale Scheetz wrote:
> 
> On Mon, 16 Jun 1997, Lawrence Chim wrote:
> 
> > If a standard package depends a non-free package, it won't resolve it
> > and I have to manually install the non-free package free before
> > installing
> > the standard package.
> >
> If a standard package depends on a non-free package it should be reported
> as a bug. To my knowledge there are no such packages in 1.3.0.
> 
> Luck,
> 
> Dwarf

There is some.  For example, some program depends on gs and there are
two gs
packages - one in binary-i386 and one in non-free.  For people to use
the one
in non-free, they have to install the one in binary-i386 first then
replace
it by the one in non-free later.

Lawrence


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