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On Wed, Feb 06, 2002 at 04:30:18PM +0200, Harri Haataja wrote:
> I have a few such things (with jdk, imlib, kernel DRI version..
> something) and Ive just made dummy packages (with verbose warning
> attached ;) that explicitly provide those capabilities. (or claim to,
> that is).

Hm. One could do this with rpm's --justdb switch too, without having to 
make a dummy package, right?

I was wondering that this is a bit dangerous if there is a update for my 
software, as the dummy package might get updated with it overwriting the 
installation I've done from source... Not good.

Is there really no "--nodeps" kind of switch in apt-get? 

-- 
Peter


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