On 7 Oct 2002, Thomas Hood wrote: > ------------------------------------- > dpkg: considering removing kbd in favour of kbd-compat ... > dpkg: yes, will remove kbd in favour of kbd-compat. > [...] > dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of kbd-compat: > kbd-compat depends on console-tools (>= 1997.10.28-1); however: > Package console-tools is not installed. > ------------------------------------- > > I don't understand why dpkg would start to install a package > with unmet dependencies and then abort at configuration time.
Packages can exist in an unpacked state with unmet dependencies. A dependency only needs to be resolved before a package is configured. It has always been this way.
