virtual package? aptitude says "not a real package".

furufuru_at_ccsr.u-tokyo.ac.jp
Date: 09/29/05

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    Hello all,

    aptitude sometimes says some package is "not a real package".
    For instance:

        $ aptitude show emacs-dl-wnn
        Package: emacs-dl-wnn
        State: not a real package

    When I try to install such a package using "aptitude install",
    nothing is installed. Could someone tell me what this is?

    I remember that when I was using woody, I sometimes installed
    a "virtual package", whose sole purpose was to automatically
    install the other packages on which it nominally "depends".
    At first I thought this "not a real package" business was just
    that. But, I'm puzzled because such a package installs
    nothing. . . .

    Oh, and I'm now using etch (testing).

    Regards,
    Ryo 

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