On Wednesday 04 March 2009 3:50:32 am Onno Benschop wrote: > Can someone please explain to me why I'm asked to download 32.2Mb of an > update that has as a description: > > "No change rebuild to satisfy build dependency for kdepim security > update" > > > What I'm really asking is these three different questions: > > 1. Why am I downloading something that is no different from the > previous version. As I understand the packaging system, any update > to kdepim should be more than able to cope with being part of a > specific version using depends and requires.
The dependencies are listed in the package. To change the dependencies inside the package, the whole package has to be re-issued. > 2. Why am I downloading that much data for just version number > changes, if that's really all that is changing? Because the entire thing is one package. > 3. Why am I downloading these updates when I don't actually have > kdepim installed at all? Not Kontact, Kmail, Korganizer...? -- Mackenzie Morgan http://ubuntulinuxtipstricks.blogspot.com apt-get moo
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