On Wed, Dec 03, 2003 at 06:10:27PM +1100, Hamish Moffatt wrote: > On Tue, Dec 02, 2003 at 02:10:56PM +0000, Jonathan Dowland wrote: > > Should this be the job of apt-get? Fetching a list of build-depends is a > > similar job to that performed by apt-cache for other fields. I always > > associate apt-get with installing and removing packages. > > Yes, and "apt-get build-dep somesourcepackage" does install the > necessary build-deps, so this fits right in.
Ah yes, of course. I was thinking of an action which would return build dependencies, not install them. For the latter case apt-get would be the logical tool. -- Jon Dowland http://jon.dowland.name/
