On Thu, 11 Sep 2008 19:50:35 +0200, David Paleino wrote: > On Thu, 11 Sep 2008 19:43:39 +0200, Josselin Mouette wrote: > > You’d run into the same issue as module-assistant has: a package being > > installed cannot launch installation of other packages. > > Uhm, right. > I believe there could be a margin of improvement here for apt-get: > > 1) apt-get install linux-image-2.6-blabla > 2) ...installation goes... > 3) the postinst hook sets an "APT flag" (something like: "please rerun because > you still have things to do") with some "action" (i.e. "mark package FOO for > installation) > 4) apt-get checks if there are any flags set, and if so, acts consequently. Re-reading my mail: isn't that what dpkg triggers do (i.e. "setting flags" and postponing actions...)? Can't apt-get just spawn another instance of itself? Regards, David -- . ''`. Debian maintainer | http://wiki.debian.org/DavidPaleino : :' : Linuxer #334216 --|-- http://www.hanskalabs.net/ `. `'` GPG: 1392B174 ----|---- http://snipr.com/qa_page `- 2BAB C625 4E66 E7B8 450A C3E1 E6AA 9017 1392 B174
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