That would be great actually, since I'm not too sure which developers to contact. Thanks.
Regards, Sam Lidder On Thu, Mar 1, 2012 at 4:26 AM, Gergely Nagy <[email protected]> wrote: > 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
