Re: breaking depenancies
On Thu, Jan 15, 2004 at 03:33:23PM -0500, Michael B Allen wrote:
> Colin Watson wrote:
> > On Thu, Jan 15, 2004 at 05:42:01AM -0500, Michael B Allen wrote:
> >> I baulk at the idea of installing 7.5MB of X libraries just for The
> >> Webalizer.
> >
> > Obviously not just for webalizer, since I believe I've seen you asking
> > about other packages that indirectly depend on xlibs.
>
> Yeah, apt-get install slapd want's X (not just the libs -- the whole
> enchalada). That's obviously just a depenancy error :(
I wasn't at all convinced about that but didn't have time to
investigate. It actually looked like you already had something brokenly
installed that depended on X, and apt-get was taking the opportunity to
fix it up, independently of slapd.
> > I suggest getting used to using 'apt-cache show <package>' and reading
> > Depends: lines to work out where dependencies come from. Good package
> > management frontends (i.e. not apt-get) should be able to tell you, too;
> > even the venerable dselect can do this, so I'd imagine aptitude can as
> > well.
>
> I know about apt-cache show. But I'll look into dselect. I think
> aptitude is a GUI so I don't think that applies to me.
aptitude is usable in the same environments as dselect.
Cheers,
--
Colin Watson [cjwatson@flatline.org.uk]
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