reassign 243317 aptitude thanks On Mon, Apr 12, 2004 at 02:48:38PM +0200, Osamu Aoki wrote:
> Package: apt > Version: 0.5.24 > Severity: wishlist > > apt-get can be substituted mostly by aptitudes recently and it has > advantage of automatic dependency tracking and --with(out)-recommends > type of options. > > But source package side is weak. Is there any way to invoke aptitudes > for build-dep. Some option such as > > apt-get build-dep --use-aptitude "--with-recommends --without-suggests"\ > <source-package-name> > > is nice to have. (Currently alternative "-r -G" does not work on > aptitude but that is separate issue.) This isn't terribly feasible given the way that build-dep works. It seems much more reasonable for aptitude to implement build-dep (one less reason to use apt-get); it should be able to base its implementation on the code in apt-get if the maintainer wants to. -- - mdz
