Re: YADW (Yeat another dpkg wishlist)

[Dale Scheetz <dwarf@polaris.net>]

On 14 Oct 1997, Guy Maor wrote:

> Dale Scheetz <dwarf@polaris.net> writes:
> 
> > If Diety/Deity installs each package completely before moving on to the
> > next, then pre-depends can be treated as simple depends, right?
> 
> Yes, but it would be very undesirable for Diety to do that.  It would
> be very slow, and configuration wouldn't all come at the end.

I was wishing for Diety to take all the configuration information up-front
;-)
How does doing a complete install on each package take longer than
unpacking each package and then configuring each? It's the same amount of
work in either case isn't it?

Later,

Dwarf
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