Am Fre, 24 Nov 2000 03:14:22 schrieb Petros Sidiropoulos: > hi > what's the difference between depends and pre-depends for a package? For example when I type 'dpkg --status some-packege' > there is a section with depends and another section with pre-depends.
Hi, please do not send HTML versions of your mail, thank you. Pre-Dependencies have to be fulfilled before the package is "unpacked". The packages a package pre depends on must be fully configured before the package can be unpacked. This requires two seperate dpkg runs. A simple dependency allows multiple packages to be unpacked in a single run, and then configuring the packages is in order of their dependencies. This is all explained in the Debian packaging manual. Marcus
