Re: why so hard to decline recommend packages dselect/apt

["John L. Fjellstad" <john-list@fjellstad.org>]

On Mon, Aug 21, 2000 at 02:12:17AM +0200, Florian Friesdorf wrote:
 
> There are programs, like mutt, that depend on a smtp-mailer-daemon.
> You installed exim to satisfy this dependency. Now if you prefer using qmail instead of exim, just install qmail, and afaik exim will be automatically removed.

Well, the problem was that I wanted to install qmail from the author's
pristine sources, so it couldn't really be under dpkg management.

Basically, I needed equivs to satisfy the dependencies.

What was weird is, you can force a installation of mutt using
dselect, but after that, unless this particular dependency is 
satisfied, apt-get refuse to install any other packages, even if they
are unrelated.

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