Christian Hudon <chr...@pianocktail.org> wrote: > Package: apt > Severity: wishlist > > Hello, > > Sometimes, I need to cut and paste the contents of a Depends field (from > running "dpkg -s", etc.) or from a Build-depend line (from the control > file of a .deb whose source I just unpacked) to install packages > required by a package that I downloaded separately. It'd be really nice > if "apt-get install" understood the syntax of those fields directly > instead of having to edit the command line to remove all the commas, the > minimum version requirements, the ORs (with "|") before pressing enter.
There are a number of obvious reasons to not include such support in apt. It is preferable to have a small, separate utility rather than arbitrarily extend apts scope to include what is effectively ad hoc package creation. For Build-Depends you can use mk-build-deps from package devscripts. For example: # mk-build-deps -i debian/control For the general case, you can use equivs to produce a fake package. Im sure it is also simple to extend equivs so that you can specify the depends, build, and install in one command. See also <http://bugs.debian.org/214566>, which is a similar request for dpkg. Both of these are best satisfied by a separate tool. Regards -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
