On Fri, Apr 10, 2009 at 12:27 PM, zooko <zo...@zooko.com> wrote: > 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. >
Interesting, building on existing clever, good peg_shape/hole_shape match. Thanks, Kent > Regards, > > Zooko > _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - Distutils-SIG@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig
