[svlug] The best distribution

[Joey Hess]

Charlie Lehardy wrote:
> hating the packages. I have installed some stuff from source (like XFree86)
> and am now wanting to get rid of the .deb packages. However, if I get rid of
> those, I will get dependency errors. However, I love the packages because
> they tell me when there are dependency problems that I need to fix of things
> that I don't want to install from source. So basically, I would like a
> system that recognizes that I have installed packages from source, and does
> not give me dependency errors when I get rid of the old.

The 'equivs' debian package does this.

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