In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Ruud de Rooij <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes
>From the Packaging manual, section 8.2: > > Thus `Depends' allows package maintainers to impose an order in which > packages should be configured. > > `dpkg' will not configure packages whose dependencies aren't > satisfied. > >If dpkg does run postinsts in the wrong order, then we might just as well >turn all depends fields into pre-depends. What does dpkg do in the case of circular dependencies? -- Ian Lynagh - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.lynagh.demon.co.uk/ If an item is advertised as "under $50.00", you can bet it's not $9.99.
