On Thu, Jan 04, 2001 at 11:19:59PM +0200, Sami Haahtinen wrote: > how would the package manager (namely apt) know which ones you need.. even if > you don't have X11 installed (and apt assumes you don't need X11 packages > file) > doesn't mean that you wouldn't want to install x11 packages file.
another solution is to let every single deb provides its.pkg-gz then, apt-get update will do nothing, apt-get install some.deb will first download some.pkg-gz, then check its dependency, then grab them.pkg-gz all, then install. and a virtual release-pkgs-gz.deb will depend on some selected part of those any.pkg-gz to get up a release. then katie will remove a package only when no release-pkgs-gz.deb (or testing, or whatever) depends on its.pkg-gz regards, zw
