On Sun, May 10, 2009 at 08:52:46AM +1000, Brendan O'Dea wrote:
> On Sat, May 9, 2009 at 10:16 PM, Holger Levsen wrote:
> > Whats wrong with making perl depend perl-modules and making perl-modules
> > only
> > recommend perl? (I do the same with the tuxtype and tuxtype-data packages,
> > and tuxty
For reference, an install/remove of perl on current unstable:
# apt-get install perl
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
The following extra packages will be installed:
make perl-modules
Suggested packages:
make-doc perl-doc libterm-readline
On Sat, May 9, 2009 at 10:16 PM, Holger Levsen wrote:
> Whats wrong with making perl depend perl-modules and making perl-modules only
> recommend perl? (I do the same with the tuxtype and tuxtype-data packages,
> and tuxtype-data is also basically useless without tuxtype. You could look at
> the i
package: perl
User: debian...@lists.debian.org
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Hi Brendan,
thanks for maintaining perl!
As you'll know perl depends on perl-modules and perl-modules depends on perl,
which is called a circular dependency, which sometimes breaks apt (not dpkg)
in interesting ways
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