Re: .deb dependancy hell

From: Dave Carrigan (dave_at_rudedog.org)
Date: 01/28/04

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    Date: Wed, 28 Jan 2004 08:34:43 -0800
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    On Wed, Jan 28, 2004 at 10:56:24AM -0500, Richard Hoskins wrote:
    > On unstable, i386.
    >
    > Kind of reminds me of RPM:

    ...snip dpkg -r lossage

    Why aren't you just using

      apt-get remove libgphoto2-2

    Dpkg was never designed to handle dependencies; apt was.

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