Hi, I'd like to suggest a little improvement for dpkg:
Sometimes there is the need to compile programs instead of using pre-compiled packages for several reasons, e.g. special configurations or use of a different software versions. This leads into dependency problems if other packages depend on this software, because the locally compiled software conflicts with the package, but without the packages dependencies remain unresolved. At the moment there is no good way to circumvent these dependency problems. Neither the --ignore-depends argument, nor the equivs package are clean ways to solve the problem. So perhaps dpkg could read a list of package names and versions from an /etc file and just assume that these packages exist even if they are not installed. regards Hadmut -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
