On Tue, 23 Nov 2004, Aurelien Bompard wrote: > Hi all > > When I saw that an update for slang was available, I issued an apt-get > install slang, and thought that it would pull slang-devel too. It didnt: > # rpm -qR slang-devel > slang = 1.4.9 You are getting confused. You answered your own question above. slang-devel requires slang, not the other way around. Think about it, the reason for breaking out things into the -devel packages is to not install the devel stuff unless you need it. *-devel is not ever required by the parent package that I am aware of. Regards, Tom
