On Sat, Oct 22, 2005 at 12:35:25AM +0200, Aurelien Jarno <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was heard to say: > Well I don't see what will change if lm-sensors recommends > lm-sensors-2.4.27-2-386 as default, except some confusion to the users. > They will install it, and nothing will work. > > Currently, here is what happens: > > | [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/# apt-get install lm-sensors > | Reading package lists... Done > | Building dependency tree... Done > | The following extra packages will be installed: > | libsensors3 ucf > | Suggested packages: > | lm-sensors-mod-2.9.2 kernel-image-2.6 lm-sensors-source i2c-source > | sensord read-edid
This is a bug in apt-get, which does not install recommendations and apparently treats them like Suggests. Here is what happens in a properly behaving package manager: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ aptitude -s install lm-sensors Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree... Done Reading extended state information Initializing package states... Done Reading task descriptions... Done Building tag database... Done The following NEW packages will be automatically installed: i2c-2.4.27-2-386 kernel-image-2.4.27-2-386 lm-sensors-2.4.27-2-386 The following NEW packages will be installed: i2c-2.4.27-2-386 kernel-image-2.4.27-2-386 lm-sensors lm-sensors-2.4.27-2-386 0 packages upgraded, 4 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded. Need to get 11.4MB/11.9MB of archives. After unpacking 32.2MB will be used. Do you want to continue? [Y/n/?] ...except that since this dependency is pure virtual, which package gets picked to fulfill it is unpredictable; it might just as well have installed lm-sensors-2.4.27-2-k7 instead. Daniel
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