On Thu, Aug 26, 1999 at 02:13:59AM +0200, Sami Dalouche wrote: > I would like to know if there's a possibility with apt (or something else) > to do the same that windows/Office 2000. > It installs automaticly new software from the CD when you want to start a > non-installed function. > > It could be great if under Debian, when we type a command that don't exist, > it would automaticly search the command from a small APT database or from the > internet if diald|direct connection is here.
Are you sure it would be good? Aren't debian's dependencies meant to handle that pretty much? > And we could specify in a conffile to download the software or to install > directly from the CD. > > Wouldn't it be cool ? Is it possible to program ? Well you would have to alter each and every shell for a start, to call your code when it can't find the path, and that's just for commands people would type. Then commands called from compiled languages would need a lower level method of handling it maybe. > > If a such software doesn't exist, do some people want to join to me to > program a such thing - As soon as I'm able to do it, I'm learning C in the > moment -. ? I wouldn't. I think that unix is not like that; I think the fact that apt-get can install packages I haven't individually requested it to is enough for me; I want control, not nannying. Good idea though. frankie -- ,-----------------------------------------------------------------------------. > Frankie Fisher | Capitalism is the extraordinary belief that < > frankie @ | the nastiest of men, for the nastiest of < > skunkpussy.freeserve.co.uk | reasons, will somehow work for the benefit < > PGP Key available on request. | of us all. -- John Maynard Keynes < `-----------------------------------------------------------------------------'
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