Following the chain of dependencies

[Brian McKee]

On Thu, May 7, 2009 at 6:34 PM, Marius Gedminas <marius at pov.lt> wrote:
>> ==> aptitude show apticron
>> State: not installed
>> Depends: apt-listchanges (>= 2.59), mailx, debconf | debconf-2.0,
>> iproute, apt (>= 0.6.8)
>>
>> Assuming it takes the first fork
>
> I think you're interpreting the dependency list as
>
>  (apt-listchanges >= 2.59 and mailx and debconf) or (debconf-2.0)
>
> while it's really
>
>  apt-listchanges >= 2.59 and mailx and (debconf or debconf-2.0)

Ah - OK - thanks for pointing that out.

And thanks for the aptitude install me notme- pointer
I'll try and remember that the next time

Brian

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