On Tue, Oct 04, 2005 at 01:10:42PM +0200, Eduard Bloch wrote: > #include <hallo.h> > * Josselin Mouette [Tue, Oct 04 2005, 10:10:22AM]: > > > > Far too often people (read: newbies) get confused when they can't get > > > *insert favorite package manager* to install the .deb's they've just > > > downloaded. With DebInstaller installation is simply a double click > > > away. No fancy features, just a small dialog that ask for the sudo > > > password > > > and if you really want to install. > > > > Which toolkit does it use? > > Does it pull dependencies using APT as well? That feature has been > > missing in APT for a long time. > > I wonder why nobody did implement that feature before. I imagine > (without knowing much about APT's internals), the pseudocode would look > like that:
I suspect the main thing is that parsing .deb(5) files looks rather annoying. Not hard necessarily, but annoying enough that it's easy to find more important things to work on ;-). Daniel -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
