Hello, While exploring (juste a little) dependencies of ocaml and related stuff...
[3.04 ;-)] apt-cache show ocaml | grep Depends libc6 (>= 2.2.4-4), libncurses5-dev, ocaml-base (= 3.04-12) apt-cache show ocaml-base | grep Depends Depends: libc6 (>= 2.2.4-4), libncurses5 (>= 5.2.20020112a-1), tcl8.3 (>= 8.3.0), tk8.3 (>= 8.3.0), xlibs (>> 4.1.0) apt-cache show tk8.3 | grep Depends libc6 (>= 2.1.2), tcl8.3 (>= 8.3.0), xlib6g (>= 3.3.6-4) [and it works perfectly, AFAIK ;-)] My question is : is there any way to avoid duplicating dependencies already stated by packages already installed. e.g in the example above, few dependencies are already stated (and fullfilled) by tk8.3 (which is a dependence for ocaml-base), thus dependencies overs libc6/xlibs/... are "over-stated". I know that this is probably not a trivial question, but I think that it is not forbidden to perform post-processing on the control file while building the package, isn'it ? Is it possible ? (i.e removing the dependencies which are already stated in the set of installed (and required) packages e.g. ocaml-base depends "only" on : libncurses5 (>= 5.2.20020112a-1), tcl8.3 (>= 8.3.0), tk8.3 (>= 8.3.0) Cheers -- mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] tel: (33) 03 20 43 84 06 INRETS, 20 rue Élisée Reclus fax: (33) 03 20 43 83 59 BP 317 -- 59666 Villeneuve d'Ascq http://www3.inrets.fr/estas/mariano
