Tyler J. Wagner wrote at about 23:05:34 +0000 on Thursday, March 10, 2011:
 > On Thu, 2011-03-10 at 16:32 -0500, Jeffrey J. Kosowsky wrote:
 > > Debian does have one potentially MAJOR downside -- that is that since
 > > dpkg (and hence also apt) makes it hard to override package
 > > dependencies, you are stuck with all the other packages that the
 > > Debian BackupPC package draws in, including apache.
 > 
 > You may misunderstand the way package dependencies work with APT.
Nope
 > 
 > The BackupPC package depends on (among other things): apache2 | httpd.
 > All other HTTP servers provide "httpd". Which means if you just install
 > BackupPC, you get sane default software (apache). But if you want to run
 > nginx or lighttpd or anything else, you can. Just choose to install it
 > before, or with, BackupPC.
 > 

Except sometimes you want BackupPC without *any* HTTP server which is
also a valid BackupPC configuration. cgi is a BackupPC option, not a
requirement, but dpkg/apt will mess up since it requires
httpd... which of course was my original point ;)

In general, I find dpkg to be less flexible than rpm mostly for
reasons like the above. Sometimes 'dpkg' tries to be too smart (I have
similar problems when I try to override releases)...

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