On Sat, 5 Mar 2005 11:43:51 -0500, Peter Arremann <loony@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > I'm sure that was just a packaging error of some form (dependency to -devel > package I think) but when trying to figure out if there is a way to prevent > this, I found no good answer... preventing packaging problems... no there is no good answer... packagers make mistakes. If you feel that one specific case with boost was a packaging problem it needs to be filed as a bug. -jef