Re: debmake & dpkg
On Wed, 22 Jan 1997, Ian Jackson wrote:
> > - automatically locate packages when just a packagename is given
> > (invoke ftp or whatever means configured to get the package)
> >
> > - automatically install packages depended on by a package
>
> I think that this is the job of dselect. dselect should have a
> `noninteractive' mode where you say:
> dselect --install spong
> and it finds spong and things it depends on and installs them.
Whether it should be implemented intodpkg or dselect is only an
implementation problem. _(; Whoever, I'm very much interested into having
this functionality; and almost all my friends running Debian asked me if
there was something similar existing...
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