In article <3139.906662448@munnari.oz.au>,
	Robert Elz <kre@munnari.OZ.AU> writes:
> It would be kind of nice if required packages weren't installed unless
> the dependant package is also to be installed.

That's not possible. The KDE packages e.g. can't even be built if the
"kdelibs" packages wasn't *installed*. And none of the ncurses
applications could be compiled without a prior installation.

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Matthias Scheler                                http://home.owl.de/~tron/