Re: fake packages?

[cjw44@flatline.org.uk (Colin Watson)]

"Michael P. Soulier" <msoulier@storm.ca> wrote:
>    Hey guys. How does this work?
>
>lupus:~# apt-get install latex
>Reading Package Lists... Done
>Building Dependency Tree... Done
>Note, selecting tetex-bin instead of latex
>
>    I don't see a package called latex in the cache, but apt-get knew to grab
>tetex-bin. Where does it get that information?

  [cjw44@riva ~]$ dpkg -p tetex-bin
  Package: tetex-bin
  [...]
  Provides: tex, latex, dvips, dvipsk, xdvi, metafont

Cheers,

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Colin Watson                                     [cjw44@flatline.org.uk]