Re: Change Package Dependencies

2009-12-30 Thread Lukas Ruf
> Sven Joachim [2009-12-30 09:59]: > > What do you mean by "insist"? If they recommend the doc package, you > can easily overrule that. If they depend on it, that is a bug and you > should report it. > texlive-base depends on texlive-doc-base -- I'm gonna report it. Thanks. wbr, Lukas -- Luk

Re: Change Package Dependencies

2009-12-30 Thread Lukas Ruf
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 > Andrei Popescu [2009-12-30 10:06]: > > On Wed,30.Dec.09, 09:37:16, Lukas Ruf wrote: > > Dear all > > > > Is there any possibility to overrule the package dependencies without > > modifying the package source? > > > > Reason for asking: I do not need

Re: Change Package Dependencies

2009-12-30 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Wed,30.Dec.09, 09:37:16, Lukas Ruf wrote: > Dear all > > Is there any possibility to overrule the package dependencies without > modifying the package source? > > Reason for asking: I do not need to have doc packages installed on all > of my servers. But some packages simply insist on install

Re: Change Package Dependencies

2009-12-30 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2009-12-30 09:37 +0100, Lukas Ruf wrote: > Is there any possibility to overrule the package dependencies without > modifying the package source? Not really. While rebuilding from source is not strictly necessary, at least you'll have to modify the binary package(s). > Reason for asking: I do

Change Package Dependencies

2009-12-30 Thread Lukas Ruf
Dear all Is there any possibility to overrule the package dependencies without modifying the package source? Reason for asking: I do not need to have doc packages installed on all of my servers. But some packages simply insist on installing their doc package too. In /etc/apt/preferences, I mark