Hi folks,
This is something that's bugged me for a while and I'm sure there must be a
way to do it... Basically, there are lots of cases where I remove packages
that other packages depend on when I replace them with an alternative I have
compiled myself.
One example of this is qmail. I removed exim on Debian 2.2 and replaced it
with qmail which I compiled myself from sources. Lots of stuff depends on
mail-transport-agent and I can't use dselect to get other packages or do
updates once this is broken since when I tell it to do the install it checks
the dependencies and removes all the software that depends on the
mail-transport-agent (bad).
Does anyone have any simple instructions or suggestions on how to create a
fake debian package that claims it provides mail-transport-agent? Or
another easy solution? Some way to tell it that it doesn't need
mail-transport-agent?
Thanks for the help,
Peter McLachlan
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