On Mon, Mar 28, 2011 at 14:12, Reuben Thomas <[email protected]> wrote: > On 28 March 2011 14:49, Tshepang Lekhonkhobe <[email protected]> wrote: >> While trying to do the change, I realised that gdebi doesn't do >> multiple deb file installations at a time. That's an important feature >> that "dpkg -i" has. Is it even worth running multiple gdebi commands >> for this (e.g. "gdebi pkg1.deb; gdebi pkg2.deb")? I'm not sure because >> that's a heck of a lot of (noisy) output. > > You could use gdebi for a new command, wajig install-depend, by > analogy with {remove,purge}-depend.
I think we'd be pushing it too far that way. It doesn't feel like a justified use-case to add yet-another-command. I'd rather investigate how to handle dependencies by using python-apt directly. What do you think? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
