On Thu, Aug 26, 1999 at 01:11:24PM -0400, Ben Collins wrote: > On Thu, Aug 26, 1999 at 01:19:56PM -0500, Ashley Clark wrote: > > On Wed, 25 Aug 1999, 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. > > > 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 ? > > > > Egads man! That would be a lot of work, for it to work (I personally > > wouldn't > > want it on my machine for numerous reasons) you'd have to make *EVERY* > > program > > that executed a program check with apt/dpkg to see if a package contains > > that > > executable. The only other way around it would be to write a wrapper program > > that would take as arguments the command line to search for and possibly > > install. This would be easier but you'd still have to tell all other > > programs > > to change what they execute in order for your program to search for new > > packages. > > <sarcasm> > You could just get really spiffy and rewrite glibc's exec*() calls to do > all of this. Then when you execute a command as root, like accidentally > typing ssh instead of sh, then all of the sudden you have an import/export > restricted piece of software automatically installed on your system! > > Or better yet run some scripts that try to exec programs that aren't > available and see how much you can overload your bandwidth! > </sarcasm> > > Sorry, auto updating packages to the latest version is one thing, but auto > installing is down right dangerous. Just because it's "nifty" and "easy" > doesn't mean it's a good idea. Gee, Windows itself is "nifty" and "easy" > isn't it? :) > > Ben
Thank you very much for all your answers. I didn't imagine this as hard as it is and didn't see the dangerous aspect of it. As a result, I will wait a bit before beginning so difficult and dangerous software like this. But your answers were very helpful. sami -- LL II NN N U U X X RRRR U U LL EEEEE ZZZZZ !! LL N N N U U XX R R U U LL E__ Z !! LL II N N N U U XX RRR U U LL E Z LLLLL II N NN UUUUU X X R R UUUUU LLLLL EEEEE ZZZZZ !!
