Re: [PLUG] apt interdependencies

[Art Alexion <art.alexion@verizon.net>]

On Saturday 13 January 2007 13:56, Matthew Rosewarne wrote:
> Not entirely sure about Ubuntu, but in Debian there is a package
> called "equivs" which lets you generate empty packages that only contain
> dependencies.  This might be useful as the glue to fool apt into playing
> nice.

I've been wanting to look into this where package x may satisfy a dependency 
of package y, but x is name differently than y expects when searching for 
dependencies.
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