I don't need xserver-xorg-video-mach64 or xserver-xorg-video-r128 to run X on my machine but xserver-xorg-video-radeon comes bundled with them and xserver-xorg-video-ati. A little experimentation established that X works fine without xserver-xorg-video-{mach64,r128} but apt-get complains about the broken ...-ati package and refuses to do anything else. I've read the manpages and while dpkg seems to have '--force-depends' and '--ignore-depends' options I can't see anything in the apt-get or apt.conf manpages that really helps and putting each of those two options in the DPkg section of /etc/apt/apt.conf did no good. Google results tell how to recover from missing dependancies but I didn't see any discussion about getting apt to ignore them. Thanks, Mike -- "The only way that problems get solved in real life is with a lot of hard work on getting the details right." - Linus Torvalds
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