Sam Lidder <[email protected]> writes: > I was curious as to whether any of the developers on the aptitude > development team would be participating as mentors for GSoC 2012. The > following are some ideas I thought could be implemented in the package > manager as part of a project: > > 1. As of now, when build dependencies of a package are installed, > aptitude marks them as being manually installed. And since there is > no command to remove build dependencies, one has to do some extra > work to remove them. A solution to this would be to implement some > sort of '{remove,purge}-build-dep' command. > > I believe this would be useful for anyone who likes to contribute > to/tinker with debian packages as it would allow them to easily > manage build-dependencies on their system. It would also make sense > to have it since a user would probably expect the ability to reverse > the build-dep operation to be built-in.
This is something that would be very nice to have, indeed. I would suggest talking to the aptitude developers about this, to see if they're interested in quickly designing a GSoC project around this (and possibly other) feature. If you wish, I can ask them on your behalf, and continue from there. -- |8] _______________________________________________ Soc-coordination mailing list [email protected] http://lists.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/soc-coordination
