Re: Fake fulfilled dependency without dummy package
On 8/18/13, Ralf Mardorf <ralf.mardorf@alice-dsl.net> wrote:
> On Sat, 2013-08-17 at 16:36 -0700, Gregory Nowak wrote:
>> On Sat, Aug 17, 2013 at 06:10:52PM +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote:
>> > IIRC there's a command that can fake, that an unmet dependency is
>> > fulfilled. I already searched for apt, dpkg, aptitude regarding to this
>> > subject, but had no success.
>> >
>> > Am I mistake, is a dummy package needed?
>>
>> I have a question along the same lines, but opposite scenario. If a
>> dummy package is installed, and then it's uninstalled, only the dummy
>> package is uninstalled, not the dependencies.
> If something needs the dummy package as a dependency and you remove it,
> then the package management will remove the packages that depend on this
> dummy too, don't confuse this with e.g. meta packages that will install
> a collection of packages and that can be removed later.
For reference, equivs package is used to create both "meta", and
"dummy" packages - ie a package which "depends upon", or "provides"
(or in fact "conflicts with") other packages.
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