Explicit requires vs. auto library requires, and fc3/devel versioning

Panu Matilainen pmatilai at welho.com
Mon Mar 21 08:26:23 UTC 2005


On Sun, 20 Mar 2005, Jeff Sheltren wrote:

> On 3/20/05 8:51 AM, "Ville Skyttä" <ville.skytta at iki.fi> wrote:
>>
>> apt-get will follow such deps just fine.  If some depsolver doesn't, the
>> depsolver needs to be fixed, not worked around in packages.
>>
> Strange, perhaps that user isn't pointing apt-get to look at core packages
> as well as extras packages - that would explain the error.

..or the user is using an incorrectly generated repository. Usage of 
--bloat to genbasedir is easy to miss.

 	- Panu -


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