Re: Whiney little request
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On Thu, 15 Jan 1998, Joost Kooij wrote:
> On Thu, 15 Jan 1998, Richard Wicks wrote:
> > P.S. I've just installed debian (good riddance to slackware) and beleive I
> > encountered a bug when trying to install netscape. Did anybody else
> > have a similar problem? I kept getting an error where dselect told
> > me that the the netscape.tar.gz file should be in my /tmp directory.
> The netscape package that comes with debian is only an installer/wrapper.
> Before you install it, you need to have the netscape tarball in /tmp (or
> $TEMPDIR).
Well, since the topic *is* ``Whiney little request'' and wrappers such
as this seem the most likely way to integrate commercial software into
Debian, is it worth considering a way of specifying how to get needed
non-deb files?
Something like:
Required-nd: netscape.tar.gz
Source: netscape.tar.gz ftp://ftp.netscape.com/wherever/netscape.tar.gz
would be substantially more intuitive and convenient for the beginner
(perhaps the SEUL people would like to think about this?) at the very
least.
OTOH the above doesn't take into account mirrors at all, and may cause
problems when a new version of netscape (or whatever) gets released.
Whether the wrapper needs to be updated anyway for new releases of the
wrapee, is another matter too.
In any case, automating this wrapping process a little further would
be nice.
Comments?
Cheers,
aj
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