Re: What happened to cal?
On Sun, Sep 26, 2021 at 10:32:52PM -0400, Paul M. Foster wrote:
>
> On 9/26/21 1:18 PM, Greg Wooledge wrote:
> > On Sun, Sep 26, 2021 at 01:08:21PM -0400, Paul M. Foster wrote:
> > > I did a fresh install, and apparently "ncal" wasn't installed by default.
> > "apt-cache showpkg ncal" tells me that only bsdmainutils depends on it.
> > "apt-cache showpkg bsdmainutils" gives me a fairly significant list of
> > packages that depend on bsdmainutils, including man-db.
> >
> > So, I guess you did a VERY minimal install. man-db is a "standard"
> > package, so it should have been included in any reasonable installation.
> >
> > If you do an utterly bare installation, not even including Standard,
> > you should expect to have a bunch of stuff missing.
> >
> Nope. Did a full install with a variety of "tasks". The man-db package is
> installed, and I didn't manually install it.
Oh, looking closer:
unicorn:~$ apt-cache show man-db | grep Depends
Depends: bsdextrautils | bsdmainutils (<< 12.1.1~), [...]
So, man-db only depends on bsdmainutils as an alternative. That means
the output of "apt-cache showpkg bsdmainutils" is a bit confusing, as
is the output of "apt-cache depends man-db".
Such silly tools.
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