Re: The logical extension of the 'installer packages' concept
On Wed, Oct 20, 1999 at 04:47:50PM +0100, Edward Betts wrote:
> When apt-console or dselect does a
> listing of available binary packages, it can list the ones that have source
> but no binary, when you select to install them, the source is downloaded,
> source depends are handled and the package is built.
One potential complication is that the dependency metadata of a (binary)
package is often computed during the building of the package. How count the
package chooser properly resolve dependencies given only source packages?
Andrew
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