On Apr 9, 2009, at 14:25 PM, Kent Tenney wrote:
to get an app to run or compile I do a bunch of
sudo apt-get install xxxx
This can involve tedious trial and error.
Maybe I like the app, maybe I don't.
If I like it, I want a convenient format in which to remember the
required packages, automate their installation, provide convenience
when building machines.
If I don't like it, I'd like to remove the packages I installed.
Buildout does this for eggs, and tarballs via cmmi, I want the same
convenience for system packages.
What I would do is turn the Python package into a .deb which declares
its dependency on those other .deb's, using stdeb. Then I do "sudo
apt-get install $THAT_NEW_ONE" and it automatically brings in the
others. When I decide I don't like it, I do "sudo apt-get remove
$THAT_NEW_ONE", and apt cleverly figures out that I don't need those
other ones anymore.
Regards,
Zooko
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