On Thursday 21 February 2008 07:41:41 pm James Bunton wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 21, 2008 at 09:35:30AM -0500, Benjamin Reed wrote:
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> > Lars Eggert wrote:
> > | Hi,
> > |
> > | is there a way to list those installed packages that no other
> > | installed package depends on?
> > |
> > | I'd like to build a little script that provides the functionality of
> > | FreeBSD's pkg_cutleaves for fink.
> >
> > (http://www.freshports.org/sysutils/pkg_cutleaves/
> >
> > | )
> >
> > fink install debfoster
> >
> > ;)
>
> Anybody know of a way to get debfoster to consider build-depends as a
> dependency? Something like the UseRecommends option, except UseBuildDepends
> would be useful to avoid uninstalling/reinstalling a lot of builddepends
> packages whenever a new version of something comes out.
>
> ---
>
> James
>

debfoster only knows about the fields that get coded into a .deb file, and 
BuildDepends do not.  One could hack the control file and repackage the .deb, 
but that seems like a lot of work.


-- 
Alexander K. Hansen
akh AT finkproject DOT org
Fink User Liaison and Documenter

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