On Wed, Apr 23, 2008 at 04:53:15AM -0500, Jude DaShiell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was heard to say: > Check this out, I downgrade to sarge which was the highest form of sarge > before everything moved along into etch and later lenny. The aptitude > package was uninstalled and so I try repeating that operation where > bsdgames and emacs21 get installed together. Emacs21 has aptitude as a > dependency and cannot install without aptitude being preinstalled and > happy. If that problem never did get remedied (aptitude required to > install emacs) then there's no point in my taking any of this any > further. For one thing aptitude ought to be a pre-dependency of emacs and > apt-get didn't know about that and let me know either.
Huh? emacs doesn't depend on aptitude at all. The strongest relationship is a Suggests: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ aptitude why emacs21 aptitude i A emacs21 Depends emacs21-bin-common (= 21.4a+1-5.3) i A emacs21-bin-common Depends emacs21-common (= 21.4a+1-5.3) i A emacs21-common Depends dpkg (>= 1.9.0) i A dpkg Suggests apt i A apt Suggests aptitude | synaptic | gnome-apt | wajig I don't know what version of Debian you're talking about, but I would be aghast if any version of Emacs depended on any apt program (the dpkg dependency is only there because dpkg contains install-info). Daniel -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
