Overlap in installing packages
Phillip Susi
psusi at cfl.rr.com
Mon Jun 23 21:30:32 UTC 2008
Milosz Derezynski wrote:
> Specify both packages at the command line at the same time, e.g. with apt:
>
> apt-get install libstdc++6-4.2-dev g++-4.2.deb
You know, this really does seem like a bug in apt. If it can resolve
the circular dependency when you explicitly specify both packages, it
should be able to do the same when you specify only one and it ends up
pulling in the second to satisfy the first.
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