[Gllug] Debian

[Nix]

On Tue, 28 Aug 2001, David Damerell stated:
> Apt is very handy, but ultimately fails to understand the Debian
> packaging system; one of the reasons it so often invokes dpkg with
> --force-fuck-my-system is its failure to manipulate the desired states
> of packages correctly.
> 
> Fixing this would be an interesting project.

Whoever does this could fix it to understand Recommends: too (although
*how* is an interesting question).

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