Re: Help: apt-get -d install --reinstall ignores dependencies

[Wichert Akkerman <wichert@wiggy.net>]

Previously W. Borgert wrote:
> I read the manual page of apt-get forth and back, but I still
> don't understand it: If I want apt-get to download package files,
> I use apt-get -d install.  If the package happens to be installed
> apt-get -d --reinstall install helps.  But if the package has
> dependencies, the other packages are not downloaded :-(

Why should it reinstall all dependencies when you ask it to reinstall
a single package?

Wichert.

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