On Mon, May 9, 2011 at 15:48, Reuben Thomas <r...@sc3d.org> wrote: > On 9 May 2011 13:06, Tshepang Lekhonkhobe <tshep...@gmail.com> wrote: >> On Mon, 2011-05-09 at 12:54 +0100, Reuben Thomas wrote: > > You've closed the bug; that's fine, but I still didn't see a direct > answer to my question:
Oh, so did you want it to remain open? I thought it was enough to give you automatic dependency installation (and it's there by the way, in case you haven't noticed). Also, I thought my answer was clear enough to answer your question. I'll try again. >>> I am probably missing something, but how does gdebi manage to do this, >>> but wajig can't? >> It's not hard to extract the output from dpkg and only choose to display >> it in a more friendly manner, but I would then be relying on a non-API, > > So does gdebi extract the output of dpkg? I agree it's preferable to > use APIs than parse the output of dpkg. gdebi doesn't parse dpkg output. All it does is tell you that the DEB dependencies are unsatisfiable, and doesn't even give you the option to proceed (not good). With wajig approach, if the dependencies aren't satisfiable, you'll see that ugly dpkg output, which at least tells which dependencies are missing. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
