On Mon, May 13, 2002 at 08:58:45PM +0200, Coulonges Philippe wrote: > Le Lundi 13 Mai 2002 19:47, Borsenkow Andrej a �crit : > > > > ... then this Require is needed for every single > > package. Instead of adding it to every single package it is silently > > assumed that it is always installed. > > > > You may (want to) do it differently. In this case you strictly speaking > > leave Mandrake ground and this becomes off topic :-) > > > > If you have Mandrake distribution you have basesystem. If you have a > > collection of PRM you may do anything with this collection but it is > > unrelated to Mandrake. > > Sorry to interfere in a topic I don't masterize. > > I remember trying to uninstall some packages, and being empeached because > these packages where saying they would have to uninstall basesystem.
In this case, you are talking about a package that basesystem depends on, not a package that depends on basesystem. I am talking about arrangement like this: chkconfig <- [depends] <- basesystem <- [depends] <- ntp - Dmitri.
