On Thu, 7 Oct 2004, Andreas Barth wrote: > Package: apt > Severity: wishlist > Tags: patch > > Hi, > > please support the possibility to just give some dependencies and have > them satisfied. A patch is attached. > > Thanks for consideration.
Er, what is this patch supposed to do? >From reading the patch, the commands, and the variable names, it seems to do the exact same thing as build-dep. >From reading your comment, it seems you can pass pkgnames on the cmdline, and have apt install all their dependants. So, which is it?
