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Subject: apt uses --force-depends --force-remove-essential !!!
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Seen in my dselect run with apt acquisition:
Purging configuration files for freeciv ...
dpkg: data-dumper: dependency problems, but removing anyway as you request:
dpkg-ftp depends on perl-5.005 | data-dumper; however:
Package perl-5.005 is not configured yet.
Package data-dumper is to be removed.
Package perl-5.005 which provides data-dumper is not configured yet.
libnet-perl depends on perl-5.005 | data-dumper; however:
Package perl-5.005 is not configured yet.
Package data-dumper is to be removed.
Package perl-5.005 which provides data-dumper is not configured yet.
Removing data-dumper ...
But, I didn't request ! In ps I see:
root 24024 53.1 10.0 7040 6324 ttyp0 R 20:32 0:03 /usr/bin/dpkg
--force-depends --force-remove-essential --purge glimpse python-mpz
(This is the next package.)
Ian.
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On Sun, 20 Aug 2000, Ian Jackson wrote:
> Seen in my dselect run with apt acquisition:
<shrug> That's the only good way to deal with the weird cyclic
perl/pam/etc dependencies, the user wanting to remove essential packages,
and so on. It's safe because apt does all sorts of checking before
invoking dpkg.
Jason
