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Re: Rethinking UPMs package format

On 16 Jan 1997, Rob Browning wrote:

> Guy Maor <maor@ece.utexas.edu> writes:
> 
> > > - Automatic retrieval/installation of packages depended on and not
> > >   installed.
> > 
> > dselect already does this.  In any case, such functionality is not
> > appropriate in dpkg.
> 
> One thing I *would* really like to see added to dpkg is the ability
> for it to automatically sort for dependencies.  Actually, what I'd
> really like is a separate tool that takes a list of packages and
> returns them in dependency sorted order.  (I'm about to implement that
> very thing for dftp using (at Bruce's suggestion) tsort).

Someone mentioned just such a dependency sorting tool recently on the
lists but I can't remember who it was, or find anything in my mail archive
about it. Whoever it was, please let me know. I also have an application
fo this list sorter.

> 
> Having dpkg do it during a multi-package install wouldn't be optimal
> since it wouldn't help in cases where you want to install a bunch of
> packages separately, but in the correct order.
> 
Getting dselect to install in "proper" order is probably more appropriate
than trying to push that back into dpkg. Specialy since there is already
much dependency checking in dselect already.

Luck,

Dwarf

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