Re: Dependencies of the Damned!
On Tue, Dec 23, 2003 at 06:12:11AM -0500, Carl Fink wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 22, 2003 at 11:50:53PM -0800, Marc Wilson wrote:
> > And now you see why all that other stuff had to be removed. It depends on
> > libxrender1, and you're trying to install libxrender1.1...
>
> So libxrender1.1 isn't backward-compatible and you can't have both
> installed?
>
> > It's doing exactly what you told it to do. Since you asked for a single
> > package install, apt assumes you know exactly what you're doing.
>
> Sure, I knew that. I just thought that long chain of dependencies and the
> inconsistent state of Testing was funny.
I don't understand. There's no package called libxrender1.1 in any
Debian distribution, and no mention of it in any other package's
dependencies. Where are you getting it from?
--
Colin Watson [cjwatson@flatline.org.uk]
Reply to: