Sorry for the top posting, it's the gmail app behavior. It didn't mention the other aspects because they are not a problem. The only "problem" is the package depency.
Cordially Le 11 nov. 2014 19:03, "Pino Toscano" <[email protected]> a écrit : > > Hi, > > (please do not top-reply...) > > On Tuesday 11 November 2014 18:32:10 Mathieu Bouillaguet wrote: > > What I was suggesting, is to let the user manage depencies himself. > > > > This is what slackware users are used to do anyway. > > > > It means that we should be able to provide an exhaustive list of > > needed packages on the command line. > > > > As the semantic differ from the usual treatment of the PACKAGES > > arguments of supermin --prepare, this could be managed by a new > > option implying "do not search or install depencies for the given > > packages". > > > > What do you think ? > > What you are suggesting covers just one of the requirements of supermin > for the package manager. The others, which I wrote in a previous email, > are: > - query name, version, epoch (if existing), architecture of a package > - get the last "change time" of the package manager > - get the file list of a package (possibly with the information about > which ones are "configuration files") > - download a package > > What supermin needs seems not met by the too limited package management > on slackware, I'm afraid. > > On the other hand, this does not imply you cannot use libguestfs: with a > driver-less supermin, you can build libguestfs without an appliance > (--disable-appliance), and use a "fixed appliance", i.e. an appliance > built on a different system, pointing libguestfs to it. See also > "LIBGUESTFS_PATH" in > http://libguestfs.org/guestfs.3.html#environment-variables > and you can find our Fedora-based appliances here: > http://libguestfs.org/download/binaries/appliance/ > > -- > Pino Toscano Sorry for the top posting, it's the default gmail app behavior. It didn't mention the other aspects because they are not a problem for a slackware port. The only "problem" is the package depency. Cordially
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