-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Achim Bohnet, in an immanent manifestation of deity, wrote: >Whoow. Installed debian 10 hours ago and I can answer a question :-) > >"Pre-Depends" is a special dependency. > >In the case of most packages, dpkg will unpack its archive file (i.e., >its .deb file) independently of whether or not the files on which it >depends exist on the system. Simplistically, unpacking means that dpkg >will extract the files from the archive file that were meant to be >installed on your filesystem, and put them in place. If those packages >depend on the existence of some other packages on your system, dpkg >will refuse to complete the installation by executing its "configure" >action until the other packages are installed.
IIRC, Pre-Depends generally require approval before they're supposed to be used. But thanks anyway. I'll probably test to see if the perl-*-base package has been unpacked in the preinst of the other packages... Darren - -- <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <http://www.daft.com/~torin> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Darren Stalder/2608 Second Ave, @282/Seattle, WA 98121-1212/USA/+1-800-921-4996 @ Sysadmin, webweaver, postmaster for hire. C/Perl/CGI/Pilot programmer/tutor @ @ Make a little hot-tub in your soul. @ -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.3a Charset: noconv Comment: Processed by Mailcrypt 3.5.1, an Emacs/PGP interface iQCVAwUBN3NCUo4wrq++1Ls5AQERpAP/QWGHMeAK8DAeoxDjaqehYG10XDR3MCFW c3tC2oZ5/C/jMVCN3LRaB7xOCxE0hs+psscUJA4/8P34X0s561PGuqpi5ZzuQfCq ZtdLkVF1Zbrtw2mlNPTyqoadyxZaUa+lW+cNNHebZDMlUIFjHmwyTERfDDYv1RmW ZOuXnFSzmq8= =lG5b -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
