On Wed, Apr 16, 2003 at 02:28:20PM -0300, Mark J. Small wrote:
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| Hi everybody,
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| I've got a couple of useful programs installed in /usr/local/ on my
| Woody system, and they depend on some junk in oldlibs to run. For
| example, Wordperfect 8 needs xlib6 and xpm4.7. Is there any way to
| tell apt/dpkg that I have things that depend on these, so that I'll get
| a warning if I try to uninstall them? I always have to be very careful
| while I'm using orphaner not to break my local stuff.
Use the 'equivs' package to create an empty package that depends on
the stuff you want to record a dependency on.
| I looked at virtual packages, but it seems that they are for groups of
| similar things. (eg apache/boa/thttpd are all web servers).
That's correct.
| I'm not subbed to this list, so please cc me directly.
In that you should set the Mail-Followup-To: header to include you.
-D
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