Re: Fake fulfilled dependency without dummy package

To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Subject: Re: Fake fulfilled dependency without dummy package
From: John Hasler <jhasler@newsguy.com>
Date: Sat, 17 Aug 2013 19:54:14 -0500
Message-id: <[🔎] 87fvu7akeh.fsf@thumper.dhh.gt.org>
Reply-to: john@dhh.gt.org (John Hasler)
In-reply-to: <[🔎] 20130817233603.GA32631@gregn.net> (Gregory Nowak's message of "Sat, 17 Aug 2013 16:36:03 -0700")
References: <[🔎] 1376755852.687.5.camel@archlinux> <[🔎] 20130817233603.GA32631@gregn.net>

Gregory Nowak writes:
> For example, installing linux-image-686-pae also installs
> linux-image-3.2.0-4-686-pae.

Which implies that linux-image-686-pae depends on
linux-image-3.2.0-4-686-pae.

> However, removing linux-image-686-pae doesn't also remove
> linux-image-3.2.0-4-686-pae.

Why should it?

> Doing apt-get --purge remove doesn't work in these situations.

"--purge" has nothing to do with dependencies.  It just removes
configuration files.
-- 
John Hasler 
jhasler@newsguy.com
Elmwood, WI USA

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References:
- Fake fulfilled dependency without dummy package
  - From: Ralf Mardorf <ralf.mardorf@alice-dsl.net>
- Re: Fake fulfilled dependency without dummy package
  - From: Gregory Nowak <greg@gregn.net>

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