Re: control apt-get selection for packages having multiple virtual package alternatives

2010-08-16 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
Using aptitude is preferred to using apt-get for most purposes. In this case, aptitude's curses (or even GTK!) interface might be the best way to select which real package you want to satisfy a virtual package dependency. -- Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. ,= ,-_-. =. b...@iguanasuicide

Re: control apt-get selection for packages having multiple virtual package alternatives

2010-08-16 Thread Jordan Metzmeier
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 08/16/2010 05:08 PM, Johannes Schauer wrote: > hi!let me explain with the example of xserver-xorg. amongst others it > has dependencies of xserver-xorg-input-all and xserver-xorg-video-all but > both dependencies can also be provided by th

control apt-get selection for packages having multiple virtual package alternatives

2010-08-16 Thread Johannes Schauer
hi!let me explain with the example of xserver-xorg. amongst others it has dependencies of xserver-xorg-input-all and xserver-xorg-video-all but both dependencies can also be provided by the packages xserver-xorg-input-7 and xserver-xorg-video-6. as you all know, the difference is that th