Re: dpkg non-non maintainer release
On Thu, 3 Sep 1998, Ian Jackson wrote:
> c. Centralise the dependency-handling code, to make it more reusable,
> and to make it possible to fix the one or two dependency-related
> bugs. This is quite a lot of work, but again, I don't feel I need
> much input.
>
> d. Improvements to dselect's ui. Lots of small improvements (grep
> the code for `fixme').
>
> e. Improvements to dselect's installation methods, many of which are
> quite suboptimal.
May I also suggest:
f. Add support for "locally installed" packages.
ie: "dpkg --local-pkg mail-transport-agent" tells dpkg I've installed my
own mix of exim+qmail and it should consider mail-transport-agent as an
installed package when resolving dependancies. So far I had to install
fake empty packages to solve this problem, but this is somewhat kludgy
and unpractical.
(How easy/hard is it to implement this?)
Cordialement,
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