On Thu, 2016-12-22 at 15:01 +0100, Johannes Schauer wrote: > this has the disadvantage of always pulling in the build-essential > package.
For systems with build-essential already installed, that method would be simpler and better IMO. > This has the disadvantage that it installs a meta-package on the > user's system. You could `dpkg --purge` it afterwards to avoid this. > We'll be using apt's EDSP interface. What are the apt version constraints for that? It would be great if this worked for apt from wheezy and later. > What do you think? I'd really like to see this functionality integrated into apt but your workaround sounds good. It is a bit too late for this work to reach stretch and I'd like to do a last-minute upload to finalise cats for stretch, so please work on this in the wip/install branch for now. I'm also not sure if apt-satisfy functionality should be in apt or devscripts or check-all-the-things or elsewhere? -- bye, pabs https://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise
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