Tom Fawcett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I'm envisioning something like a cross between Debian's dselect and > Red Hat's glint utility. Before I start in on it, has anyone already > written anything like this? Is anything planned or in the works? > Any warnings or encouragement?
I think that Ian may have recently added some functionality to dpkg that would make this easier. You should build it on top of dpkg, and one of the problems was determining something like all the recursive dependencies of a given package. I think dpkg might do this for you now, but I'm not sure. One other place you could look for relevant code is the new perl version of dftp. It may have some useful stuff related to parsing Packages files, installing packages, etc. -- Rob
