Bug#243317: "apt-get build-dep ..." to start aptitude instead

[Matt Zimmerman <mdz@debian.org>]

reassign 243317 aptitude
thanks

On Mon, Apr 12, 2004 at 02:48:38PM +0200, Osamu Aoki wrote:

> Package: apt
> Version: 0.5.24
> Severity: wishlist
> 
> apt-get can be substituted mostly by aptitudes recently and it has
> advantage of automatic dependency tracking and --with(out)-recommends
> type of options.
> 
> But source package side is weak.  Is there any way to invoke aptitudes
> for build-dep.  Some option such as
> 
>   apt-get build-dep --use-aptitude "--with-recommends --without-suggests"\
>           <source-package-name>
>   
> is nice to have.  (Currently alternative "-r -G" does not work on
> aptitude but that is separate issue.)

This isn't terribly feasible given the way that build-dep works.  It seems
much more reasonable for aptitude to implement build-dep (one less reason to
use apt-get); it should be able to base its implementation on the code in
apt-get if the maintainer wants to.

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 - mdz