Re: apt-get feature wants (was: Re: Upgrade advantage in Debian vrs. RedHat)
On Wed, Mar 28, 2001 at 01:31:44AM +0100, Colin Watson wrote:
> CaT <cat@zip.com.au> wrote:
> >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. :)
>
> 'apt-get build-dep packagename' with the apt in unstable will get the
> required build dependencies. There should be a script in dpkg 1.9.0
> which checks them, too.
ahhh. joyful. :)
now if only I didn't need gnome to compile the openssh in unstable
I'd be happier. ;)
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