Richard W.M. Jones wrote: > On Wed, May 13, 2009 at 03:28:53PM -0700, Toshio Kuratomi wrote: >> Do any other distributions purposefully add broken dependencies to their >> repositories (So that you wouldn't be able to install it without >> pointing at a second source for a package)? > > Debian allows them, Where is the documentation of this policy? because... > and they have a special program called 'equivs' > which you can use to locally compile packages in order to satisfy such > broken dependencies: > > http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/apt-howto/ch-helpers.en.html > This just explains how the equivs command works and how a user can use it if they've installed a piece of software from outside the packaging system and then want to list it as being available to the package manager. -Toshio
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