on Mon, Mar 12, 2001 at 10:58:46PM -0800, Keith Johnson (keith@mindportal.net) wrote: > Hello, > > I have put a more recent version of WINE and a copy of Netscape4 from > the Netscape site onto my otherwise, strict potato system. I had > various reasons for doing this and put both packages into the > /usr/local/ hierarchy. > > I would like to let `apt-get' know two things: > (1) Don't muck with with WINE and Netscape, and Good as done. Debian doesn't touch /usr/local, except to create certain subdirectories. No files are placed there. No files or directories are removed. > (2) That it can download other packages that depend on WINE or > Netscape. There's a way to create a pseudopackage to do this. I'm not sure of how, I'd double-check Debian docks and/or Google. I also suspect the information will be forthcoming on this list ;-) -- Karsten M. Self <kmself@ix.netcom.com> http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What part of "Gestalt" don't you understand? There is no K5 cabal http://gestalt-system.sourceforge.net/ http://www.kuro5hin.org
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