-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 25-05-2005 16:28, Andreas Tille wrote: > On Wed, 25 May 2005, Jonas Smedegaard wrote:
>> ...and when they are just suggested, you need to manually and explicitly >> pull them in. WHAM! there goes your automated distro build tool :-( > > Well, there is no other chance I would see. I think there is a > configuration > option for most apt frontends to pull also suggested in. Where is the > problem? I give up. I want automation, but maybe I am the only one in the world with these odd needs. >> I want my CDD "source" to generate dependencies depending on the sources >> available, not hardcoded dependencies! > > OK, but even soft coded dependencies do will not help if the non-free stuff > is somewhere else. I don't know if non-free is debtagged nor you can't be > sure that it is in the sources.list. > >> I want a tool not hardcoded to a specific package pool (typically being >> that of the most recently released official common Debian distribution). > > But were is the problem? We write a tool which works inside a set of > packages which is able to handle this set of packages. This is consistent, > isn't it. Forget it. I think you still talk about the CDD "binary" and I talk about a CDD "source", but whatever - we are wasting time discussing past each other. I'll shut up now. > If you have any code at hand which works better - I guess nobody will > prevent you from including it. :) I am looking at the cddtk code already (since you pointed me to the SVN archive in Greece, Andreas) - but don't expect too much of me, I am not a python hacker really. >> That's why I see a point in using debtags instead of hardcoding. > > I fail to see the difference. No, I realized that :-( - Jonas P.S. If anybody believe they understood my points then please help - I seem to not be able to express it clearly. - -- * Jonas Smedegaard - idealist og Internet-arkitekt * Tlf.: +45 40843136 Website: http://dr.jones.dk/ - Enden er nær: http://www.shibumi.org/eoti.htm -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFClJ+ln7DbMsAkQLgRAsf7AJ9Yd6hvcpSjwIK4gvR77U7h++G5lQCbBe5F blzRX+1zKVmzd7xEON3rG0M= =ykh/ -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
