On Mon, Aug 21, 2000 at 02:12:17AM +0200, Florian Friesdorf wrote:
There are programs, like mutt, that depend on a smtp-mailer-daemon.
You installed exim to satisfy this dependency. Now if you prefer using qmail
instead of exim, just install qmail, and afaik exim will be automatically
On Mon, Aug 21, 2000 at 02:01:21AM -0700, John L. Fjellstad wrote:
Well, the problem was that I wanted to install qmail from the author's
pristine sources, so it couldn't really be under dpkg management.
Basically, I needed equivs to satisfy the dependencies.
What was weird is, you can
On Sat, Aug 19, 2000 at 04:26:26PM -0800,
Ethan Benson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
personally i just use apt-get as much as possible and dselect
as little as possible.
I agree, but sometimes it's nice to have that full-screen
interface. That's why i *love* console-apt. It's so nice i use it
for
On Sat, Aug 19, 2000 at 04:26:26PM -0800, Ethan Benson wrote:
personally i just use apt-get as much as possible and dselect as
little as possible.
So, how do you avoid dependencies in apt-get? Or doesn't apt-get
install recommended packages? If that's the case, how do you make it
install
On Sun, Aug 20, 2000 at 11:07:24AM -0700, John L. Fjellstad wrote:
So, how do you avoid dependencies in apt-get? Or doesn't apt-get
You don't want to avoid something that is an actual dependancy.
install recommended packages? If that's the case, how do you make it
install recommended and
On Sun, Aug 20, 2000 at 07:48:10PM +0100, Mark Brown wrote:
You don't want to avoid something that is an actual dependancy.
Well, take this 'problem' I recently had. I just upgraded from RedHat
to Debian. My /home directory was kept, and the rest blown away. Anyways,
I ran into a problem with
On Sun, Aug 20, 2000 at 03:40:09PM -0700, John L. Fjellstad wrote:
Well, take this 'problem' I recently had. I just upgraded from RedHat
to Debian. My /home directory was kept, and the rest blown away. Anyways,
I ran into a problem with during the configuration (after installation),
and
On Mon, Aug 21, 2000 at 02:12:17AM +0200, Florian Friesdorf wrote:
There are programs, like mutt, that depend on a smtp-mailer-daemon.
You installed exim to satisfy this dependency. Now if you prefer using qmail
instead of exim, just install qmail, and afaik exim will be automatically
Why is it so hard to decline a recommends dependency?
In dselect (using the apt method), if I select a package A that
recommends a package B, dselect switches to the dependency-
resolution screen with package B selected.
If I simply deselect B and exit normally (with Return), dselect
On Sat, Aug 19, 2000 at 02:02:16PM -0400, Daniel Barclay wrote:
Why is it so hard to decline a recommends dependency?
[snip dselect experience we have all had]
AGH! I have declined the recommendation. WHY WON'T DESELECT
JUST SHUT THE FUCK UP!
Reccommends == Depends as far as dselect is
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