[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Juan Cespedes) wrote on 13.04.98 in <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> I still think it's the correct way to do this. I think the right thing to do (but surely not the easiest one) is to have apt do _all_ dependency calculations, and dpkg none. Of course, this collides with everything that currently interfaces dpkg, so it's more of a long-term goal. And apt needs some way to deal with broken packages - what dpkg does with --force and stuff. I'm not quite certain what would be the best way to do this, though, given all the side effects propagated around by the dependency network. Maybe some way for a local config file to override dependencies for specific versions of specific packages? It could look like this: control file for tk41: PACKAGE: tk41 VERSION: 4.1p1-2 MAINTAINER: David Engel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> DESCRIPTION: The Tk toolkit for TCL and X11 v4.1 - Run-Time Package. Tk is an X11 toolkit that provides the Motif look and feel and is implemented using the Tcl scripting language. DEPENDS: tcl75 (>=7.5p1-1), elf-x11r6lib CONFLICTS: tk, tk40 (<=4.0p3-2) ARCHITECTURE: i386 SOURCE: tk41 SECTION: devel PRIORITY: optional override file: [...] Package: tk41 Version: 4.1p1-2 Depends: tcl75 (>=7.5p1-1), xslib Comment: There is no elf-x11r6lib. This is obsolete. The libc5 libs are in xslib. [...] Then, apt would be able to use the normal dependency calculations, except for the dependencies as modified by that config file. Something like that is probably the cleanest possible solution. MfG Kai -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
