Re: How to Choose dependencies using apt-get/aptitude

[Florian Kulzer <florian.kulzer+debian@icfo.es>]

On Fri, Apr 20, 2007 at 19:40:40 +0530, Santanu Chatterjee wrote:
> Hi Everybody,
>
> I was trying to install mediawiki1.7 using aptitude. This
> package has 'apache | httpd' as one of its dependencies.
> I don't want to install apache. lighttpd seems to provide
> httpd. So I installed that.
>
> Now, when I tried to install mediawiki1.7, it still tries to
> install apache although I already have httpd (lighttpd).
> Could you tell me how do I prevent this from happening?

I think this happens because mediawiki1.7 depends on php5, which in turn
depends on some apache packages. I am not sure if it is possible to work
around this without breaking some features of mediawiki1.7. However, you
might want to check if your aptitude is configured to install
recommended packages automatically. This could mean that it installs
more apache packages than are absolutely necessary.

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