apt-get feature wants (was: Re: Upgrade advantage in Debian vrs. RedHat)
On Tue, Mar 27, 2001 at 11:17:15AM -0500, Alan Shutko wrote:
> CaT <cat@zip.com.au> writes:
>
> > Let me give you today's example:
>
> Nit: your example wasn't comparing apples and apples. You were
> running an up-to-date Debian system and an old RedHat system, which
I take it to be something akin from going from potato to sid wehre
even the glibc version is different. I've done it with other packages and
apart from breakages in the actual packages (which, as I said, was
to be expected with sid) it was MUCH simpler then this. I could apt-get
my way through everything.
There are some deficiencies with apt-get though. I'd like to be able to
either a. request which packages are built from source or which are not
(for eg if a package contains gnome capabilities I don't want to have
to install gnome just to compile for the non-gnome stuff that I need).
If the above could happen I'd be one step closer to heaven.
Another deficiency is that it'd be nice if apt-get told you what dependencies
you needed with a source deb. This way you could have it get the other
sources upfront instead of spending time compiling and only finding out
later that something you needed wasn't there. Ofcourse, this gets slightly
more complicated with the previous want of mine. :)
Again, one step closer if that were available. :)
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