Comment 10 for bug 114503
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| Mary Gardiner (puzzlement) wrote Re: [Bug 114503] Re: language-support-* packages depend on Firefox, Thunderbird and Open Office Writer on Ubuntu and Kubuntu | #10 |
On Thu, Apr 03, 2008, Martin Pitt wrote:
> Also, all dependencies are actually designed in a way to *not* pull in
> the application itself:
>
> Package: thunderbird-
> Depends: thunderbird | language-support-de
Ah, for me the problem is that aptitude decides it wants both of them. I
can manually mark thunderbird as not to be installed without breaking
the dependency resolution but by default it selects an imperfect
solution that installs it. So it's not a bug in the dependencies so much
as a UI problem in aptitude: typically, users trust the presented
solution.