On Fri, Jan 05, 2001 at 06:07:20AM +0800 , zhaoway wrote: > On Thu, Jan 04, 2001 at 11:19:59PM +0200, Sami Haahtinen wrote: > > how would the package manager (namely apt) know which ones you need.. even > > if > > you don't have X11 installed (and apt assumes you don't need X11 packages > > file) > > doesn't mean that you wouldn't want to install x11 packages file. > > another solution is to let every single deb provides its.pkg-gz > > then, apt-get update will do nothing, > apt-get install some.deb will first download some.pkg-gz, then check its > dependency, > then grab them.pkg-gz all, then install.
but it will immensly restrict it's view on dependencies - think about virtual packages. This is really not the way. Maybe spliting by as in pool/ so you only download changed part of the whole thing. But that's about it. Maybe you can leave some part out, but .. Petr Cech -- Debian GNU/Linux maintainer - www.debian.{org,cz} [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Joy notes some people think "Unix" is a misspelling of "Unics" which is a misspelling of "Emacs" :)