Re: getting a fake xfree package?
Forrest English <forrest@truffula.net> wrote:
> i want to isntall imagemagick on my server for use with some scripts i
> have for thumbnail gallerys. but... there's no way i want x on that
> system. besides forcing each package i want besides x, is there a way for
> the system to stop paying attention to x dependancies, or to fake it out
> somehow?
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| Package: equivs
| Priority: extra
| Section: admin
| Installed-Size: 50
| Maintainer: Martin Bialasinski <martinb@debian.org>
| Architecture: all
| Version: 2.0.2
| Depends: perl | perl5, debhelper, dpkg-dev, devscripts, make, fakeroot
| Filename: dists/sid/main/binary-i386/admin/equivs_2.0.2.deb
| Size: 17394
| MD5sum: 0c84d50f864ea181738fc1b496b6fb20
| Description: Circumventing Debian package dependencies
| This is a dummy package which can be used to create Debian
| packages, which only contain dependency information.
| .
| This way, you can make the Debian package management
| system believe that equivalents to packages on which other
| packages do depend on are actually installed.
| .
| Another possibility is creation of a meta package. When this
| package contains a dependency as "Depends: a, b, c", then
| installing this package will also select packages a, b and c.
| Instead of "Depends", you can also use "Recommends:" or
| "Suggests:" for less demanding dependency.
| .
| Please note that this is a crude hack and if thoughtlessly used
| might possibly do damage to your packaging system. And please
| note as well that using it is not the recommended way of dealing
| with broken dependencies. Better file a bug report instead.
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Thomas Weinbrenner
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