On Sat, 23 May 1998, Rev. Joseph Carter wrote: > > I'm closing bug #21780 with this because I think the concerns are > > addressed by the remove notation, and that it's much more likely that APT > > does what the user wants for -f now. > > Yes actually it is taken care of by apt-get -f install package1 ... pachageN > which I was not aware would work. Um, are the -'d packages given a remove > or a purge? I imagine they'd be removed in proper order as well as apt can > figure out?
A remove - come to think of it apt never purges, even if it's set to purge in dselect, I'll try to fix that soonly too :| > This would be useful for what? apt-get install exim sendmail- ? => > Actually I use qmail, but I'm thinking of trying exim sometime if I can get Nope, apt-get install exim libdb1-dev Updating package status cache...done Checking system integrity...ok The following extra packages will be installed: debianutils libpcre1 libc5 libc6 cron The following packages will be REMOVED: sendmail ncurses3.0-dev libg++27-dev libc5-dev libdb1-dev libgdbm1-dev The following NEW packages will be installed: libpcre1 libc6 exim 3 packages upgraded, 3 newly installed, 6 to remove and 155 not upgraded. >From a bo system that has sendmail installed. install, dist-upgrade and -f are really fairly clever about what to change to accomidate your requests. The remove notation is proably only usefull if you are testing apt, but you never know. Jason -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
