Bug#275379: apt-get: please support "satisfy"
On Thu, 7 Oct 2004, Andreas Barth wrote:
> Package: apt
> Severity: wishlist
> Tags: patch
>
> Hi,
>
> please support the possibility to just give some dependencies and have
> them satisfied. A patch is attached.
>
> Thanks for consideration.
Er, what is this patch supposed to do?
>From reading the patch, the commands, and the variable names, it seems to do
the exact same thing as build-dep.
>From reading your comment, it seems you can pass pkgnames on the cmdline, and
have apt install all their dependants.
So, which is it?
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