Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote: > Hi, today i did an apt upgrade and things seemed fine until gnuplot tried to > upgrade. It died w/ an inability to locate re.pm. The odd thing is that it > tried to find it in @INC 5.4 directories. I am running perl 5.5, but I had > perl-base 5.4 (plus the 5.5 version) and perl-base (which is for 5.4). Once > the upgrade finished, the package successfully installed.
I wonder if the core problem is that the current perl set up allows the dependancies of a package that depends on perl5 to be satisfied by a package like perl-5.005 being installed, but "perl" can still point to perl-5.004 in this situation (with no perl-5.004 being installed, just perl-5.004-base). So a program that needs things not in perl-base fails to work although its dependancies are satisfied. I posted about this a while back, but I don't remember what became of it. -- see shy jo
