Package: apt Version: 0.5.0 Severity: wishlist Apt has definitely useful features that dpkg does not have, but which would be useful locally.
Example: while doing major changes in how sets of packages relate, or while investigating what changes will need to be done because of incompatibilities with previous versions of other packages, sometimes dpkg just can't do the job in one run, whereas apt has the capability of ordering unpacks, then configuring the whole. What I imagine would be something like "apt-get install-files file1.deb ...", which would maybe internally create a temporary internal source, generate a Packages file for this source using the named debs, and proceed as usual. Do you think it's easily doable ? -- System Information Debian Release: testing/unstable Architecture: i386 Kernel: Linux bylbo 2.2.18 #1 Wed Dec 20 23:25:48 CET 2000 i586 Versions of packages apt depends on: ii libc6 2.2.2-1 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an ii libstdc++2.10 1:2.95.2-14 The GNU stdc++ library
