Wichmann, Mats D wrote:
>> Yep. Sorry for not mentioning. There's likely some slightly better
>> means than AutoReqProv: no that should be done, but AutoReqProv
>> is one way to disable dependency extraction.
> 
> yes, well, as long as the dependency extraction leads to package
> names, which have no guarantee of being consistent across distros
> (and I have *lots* of examples of where they arent), it does need
> installing. 

^^^^^^^^^^^^ disabling

I was thinking about too many things at once, sorry for the thinko.