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Re: aag - wrapper for apt-get with support for recommend and suggests field



On Tue, Apr 29, 2003 at 06:13:38AM +0200, Alexander Wirt wrote:
> Hi folks, 
> 
> i have written a small wrapper for apt-get that makes it possible to
> install all recommended and/or suggested Packages for a Package too. 
> A simple Call of: aag -rs <package> would install all recommended and
> suggested Packages for <package>. The Code isn't very nice, but it works
> fine for me. I other people are interested in using this wrapper I would
> clean the code up and insert some features. Just take a look at:
> http://www.formorer.de/code/aag/aag
> Its just a small Perlscript with getopts and pod2usage as dependencys. 
> 
> I would be pleased to hear some comments from you. 

Why not just use aptitude?[1]

 - David

[1] Yes, I know it's still uninstallable, but that's hopefully not
going to be for much longer.



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