On 26 Jun 1999, Darren/Torin/Who Ever... wrote: > Hmm. For some reason, it wants perl-5.005-base to be on that line as > well. I'm not quite sure why. > >apt-get install perl-5.005 perl-5.005-base > works correctly. > > I'm not quite sure this happens though. perl-5.005 should just pull > perl-5.005-base in automatically. I've cc'ed [EMAIL PROTECTED] > for an answer. I've also included the appropriate lines out of the > Packages file.
The short synopsis is that 'perl' is too important to remove, so it will not do so without an *explicit* request. Installing perl-5.005 is not such a request because it does not directly conflict with perl. Furthermore, at least in my case installing this new perl causes the massive purgation of many other perl-like packages, which makes it even more undesirable to install.. This is a bit interesting, I don't think it should fail like this, I'll look into it a bit more. Jason
