Name

Pkg::DoProvide — Install a list of packages to the system

Synopsis

map DoProvide ( list tags );
 

Parameters

list tags

Return

map

Description

Provides (read: installs) a list of tags to the system

tag is a package name

returns a map of tag,reason pairs if tags could not be provided. Usually this map should be empty (all required packages are installed)

If tags could not be provided (due to package install failures or conflicts), the tag is listed as a key and the value describes the reason for the failure (as an already translated string).