Installing dependencies specified in debian/control file

2015-07-14 Thread Stephen Rasku
I am in the process of updating a Ruby file used in our build system. It looks for `Depends` lines in a debian/control file in our repository, checks every dependency, and apt-get installs everything that isn't installed. We want to get rid of the Ruby dependency. I started porting this to

Re: Installing dependencies specified in debian/control file

2015-07-14 Thread Erwan David
Le 14/07/2015 17:22, Stephen Rasku a écrit : I am in the process of updating a Ruby file used in our build system. It looks for `Depends` lines in a debian/control file in our repository, checks every dependency, and apt-get installs everything that isn't installed. We want to get rid of the

Re: Installing dependencies specified in debian/control file

2015-07-14 Thread Stephen Rasku
On 15-07-14 08:26 AM, Erwan David wrote: Did you have a look at gdebi ? I hadn't but it seems to have a lot of dependencies. A lot of these are graphics/desktop-based packages. I don't understand why they are being installed; we don't want a GUI. This will be run on our build server

Re: Installing dependencies specified in debian/control file

2015-07-14 Thread Erwan David
Le 14/07/2015 17:38, Stephen Rasku a écrit : On 15-07-14 08:26 AM, Erwan David wrote: Did you have a look at gdebi ? I hadn't but it seems to have a lot of dependencies. A lot of these are graphics/desktop-based packages. I don't understand why they are being installed; we don't want a

Re: Installing dependencies specified in debian/control file

2015-07-14 Thread Erwan David
Le 14/07/2015 19:09, Erwan David a écrit : Sorry, gdebi is the gnome frontend, the cli in gdebi-core package : much lighter. More precisely : the gdebi cli command is in the gdebi-core package, not the gdebi one. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a

Re: Installing dependencies specified in debian/control file

2015-07-14 Thread Jonathan Dowland
On Tue, Jul 14, 2015 at 07:13:36PM +0200, Erwan David wrote: Le 14/07/2015 19:09, Erwan David a écrit : Sorry, gdebi is the gnome frontend, the cli in gdebi-core package : much lighter. More precisely : the gdebi cli command is in the gdebi-core package, not the gdebi one. I'd also