Hi Gerold,
Gerold Jens Wucherpfennig wrote:
> I can't download thousands of source packages and let them be examined
> by a script just to get the name of the "-dev" packages I want to
> install.
See /var/lib/apt/sources/*_Sources, or try
source=$(dpkg-query -W -f='${Source}\n' libdevel-symdump-perl)
: ${source:=libdevel-symdump-perl}
apt-cache showsrc "$source" | grep Binary
. No need to download source packages. :)
> I mean it's all about making it easy for the Debian or Ubuntu user to
> set up his/her computer as a development machine.
Yes, that is the upshot. I am not sure what the best way to do this
is --- installing the development libraries for _all_ installed
run-time libraries does not seem quite right, though I could easily be
wrong.
The usual method is something more like
# apt-get install build-essential
# apt-get build-dep something-big-and-related; # e.g., iceweasel
# apt-get install libfoo-dev libbar-dev libbaz-dev
Anyway, I'd be happy to see a proof of concept that doesn't involve
unnecessarily increasing the size of the already-large Packages file.
Maybe it can start out as an example script under /usr/share/doc/apt
as a stepping stone on the way to world domination.
Thanks for thinking about these things, and good luck.
Regards,
Jonathan
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