RE: no wonder...
On Sat, 08 Apr 2000, Christian Pernegger wrote:
> What I don't like about apt/dselect is how they treat packages locally
> compiled from source tarball. I couldn't find an option to really ignore
> dependencies and do what I say.
>
> Specifically, if I want "esound-alsa" but have compiled the ALSA
> drivers/libs/utils myself, neither dselect nor apt let me install it
> because it depends on some ALSA packages. Now, there is a [Q] option
> explained in the conflict resolution screen which should retain the exact
> state I select - only it doesn't work as expected or even
> deterministically.
>
> 1) It drops me back at conflict resolution, with its "suggestions"
> selected again
> 2) The main menu appears. If I select install, it wants to remove all of
> gnome!
>
> Perhaps I could get the deb manually and install via dpkg and a few force
> options, but that's hardly optimal...
>
> <whishlist>
>
> A package state that tells the package managers that "the functionality of
> this package is provided locally, treat it as if it was installed"
Why don't you debianize the package or create a fake one that provides the
debian-package equivalent of what you locally installed ?
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