On 11/14/2014 08:32 PM, Andy Bradford wrote: > Thus said Charles Curley on Fri, 14 Nov 2014 15:15:46 -0700: > >> So I decided to purge Iceweasel. apt-get insisted on on installing >> Icedove. Huh? I let it continue. I then tried purging Icedove. It >> insisted on installing Iceweasel. I don't want *either*. How do I do >> that? > > Not sure why there would be such a dependency, but you might be able to > make an equivs package for the one it thinks it needs and install that. > Then it will be tricked into thinking that whatever it wants is already > there, but it will just be an empty package.
Fun times. Seems like the only time I've run into dependency hell was on debian. Have never had this issue on the RPM-based distros for whatever reason. I get the impression that .debs are more fine-grained than rpm somehow and this sometimes leads to weird dependency problems. /* PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug Don't fear the penguin. */
