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

From: Michael Spang (mike_at_midgard.no-ip.org)
Date: 09/30/05

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    Date: Thu, 29 Sep 2005 23:45:16 -0400
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    furufuru@ccsr.u-tokyo.ac.jp wrote:

    >Kumar Appaiah wrote:
    >
    >
    >
    >>On my system, apt-cache show emacs-dl-wn gives me black, install says
    >>that package is unavailable.
    >>
    >>
    >
    >Thanks for your response! I'm still puzzled. What's this "ghost"
    >package, then? The "mplayer" package seems to be another example.
    >If they are unavailable, then why do they show up when you type
    >
    > $ aptitude search mplayer
    >
    >for example. What does this mean?
    >
    >
    >
    It means that there is no such package but that something depends or
    conflicts with the package. These packages are just referenced by others
    even though they arent in the archive. This happens for a variety of
    reasons.

    mike@Tyr:~$ apt-cache showpkg mplayer
    Package: mplayer
    Versions:

    Reverse Depends:
      xmms-xmmplayer,mplayer
      mozilla-mplayer,mplayer 1.0-pre5
    Dependencies:
    Provides:
    Reverse Provides: 

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