Re: What happened to cal?

From	Greg Wooledge <greg@wooledge.org>
Newsgroups	linux.debian.user
Subject	Re: What happened to cal?
Date	2021-09-27 04:50 +0200
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On Sun, Sep 26, 2021 at 10:32:52PM -0400, Paul M. Foster wrote:
> 
> On 9/26/21 1:18 PM, Greg Wooledge wrote:
> > On Sun, Sep 26, 2021 at 01:08:21PM -0400, Paul M. Foster wrote:
> > > I did a fresh install, and apparently "ncal" wasn't installed by default.
> > "apt-cache showpkg ncal" tells me that only bsdmainutils depends on it.
> > "apt-cache showpkg bsdmainutils" gives me a fairly significant list of
> > packages that depend on bsdmainutils, including man-db.
> > 
> > So, I guess you did a VERY minimal install.  man-db is a "standard"
> > package, so it should have been included in any reasonable installation.
> > 
> > If you do an utterly bare installation, not even including Standard,
> > you should expect to have a bunch of stuff missing.
> > 
> Nope. Did a full install with a variety of "tasks". The man-db package is
> installed, and I didn't manually install it.

Oh, looking closer:

unicorn:~$ apt-cache show man-db | grep Depends
Depends: bsdextrautils | bsdmainutils (<< 12.1.1~), [...]

So, man-db only depends on bsdmainutils as an alternative.  That means
the output of "apt-cache showpkg bsdmainutils" is a bit confusing, as
is the output of "apt-cache depends man-db".

Such silly tools.

Thread

What happened to cal? "Paul M. Foster" <paulf@quillandmouse.com> - 2021-09-26 07:50 +0200
  Re: What happened to cal? Jeremy Ardley <jeremy@ardley.org> - 2021-09-26 07:50 +0200
    Re: What happened to cal? Jeremy Ardley <jeremy@ardley.org> - 2021-09-26 08:00 +0200
  Re: What happened to cal? "Thomas Schmitt" <scdbackup@gmx.net> - 2021-09-26 09:00 +0200
    Re: What happened to cal? "Paul M. Foster" <paulf@quillandmouse.com> - 2021-09-26 19:20 +0200
  Re: What happened to cal? Charlie <taoquester@gmail.com> - 2021-09-26 10:00 +0200
    Re: What happened to cal? Jude DaShiell <jdashiel@panix.com> - 2021-09-26 12:10 +0200
  Re: What happened to cal? Dedeco Balaco <dedeco.balaco@yahoo.com> - 2021-09-26 14:20 +0200
    Re: What happened to cal? Erwan David <erwan@rail.eu.org> - 2021-09-26 14:50 +0200
    Re: What happened to cal? Roger Price <debian@rogerprice.org> - 2021-09-26 14:50 +0200
      Re: What happened to cal? Roger Price <debian@rogerprice.org> - 2021-09-26 18:10 +0200
  Re: What happened to cal? Greg Wooledge <greg@wooledge.org> - 2021-09-26 14:40 +0200
    Re: What happened to cal? "Paul M. Foster" <paulf@quillandmouse.com> - 2021-09-26 19:10 +0200
      Re: What happened to cal? Greg Wooledge <greg@wooledge.org> - 2021-09-26 19:20 +0200
        Re: What happened to cal? "Paul M. Foster" <paulf@quillandmouse.com> - 2021-09-27 04:40 +0200
          Re: What happened to cal? Greg Wooledge <greg@wooledge.org> - 2021-09-27 04:50 +0200
      Re: What happened to cal? "Andrew M.A. Cater" <amacater@einval.com> - 2021-09-26 20:10 +0200
  Re: What happened to cal? Jonathan Dowland <jon+debian-user@dow.land> - 2021-09-27 10:00 +0200
    Re: What happened to cal? Greg Wooledge <greg@wooledge.org> - 2021-09-27 13:20 +0200
      Re: What happened to cal? Jonathan Dowland <jon+debian-user@dow.land> - 2021-09-27 17:00 +0200
    Re: What happened to cal? "Paul M. Foster" <paulf@quillandmouse.com> - 2021-09-27 13:50 +0200

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