On Thursday 21 February 2008 10:14:49 pm Alexander K. Hansen wrote: > 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: > > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > > > Hash: SHA1 > > > > > > 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.
rangerrick said that we do code BuildDepends into the control file now, but since that's not a Debian-standard field debfoster wouldn't know how to deal with them without some hacking--either hacking the control file or debfoster itself. -- Alexander K. Hansen akh AT finkproject DOT org Fink User Liaison and Documenter ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2008. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ _______________________________________________ Fink-users mailing list Fink-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-users
