Re: NetBSD pkgsrc function
On 08-Dec-00, 09:37 (CST), "David N. Welton" <davidw@prosa.it> wrote:
> Atsuhito Kohda <kohda@pm.tokushima-u.ac.jp> writes:
>
> > So it might be not so bad to introduce port-like system into Debian.
>
> It's a neat idea, and it does have some cool aspects. It's more
> advanced than 'apt-get source ....' because it checks dependencies
> (like we do for binary packages), and the system functions as a tree -
> you can rebuild everything with 'make world'.
Wouldn't it be easier to add build-dependency checking/retrieval into
apt-get? I suppose the "rebuild everything" is a possible advantange,
but I suspect that could be easily implemented as a script that ran
through the Source file and ran the appropriate commands...
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Steve Greenland <stevegr@debian.org>
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