On Wed, 2007-07-18 at 11:41 -0800, Jeff Spaleta wrote: > On 7/18/07, Jesse Keating <jkeating@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > IIUC it would be "automatic" in that it launches say pirut to install > > the missing package, which would prompt you for your root password > > before continuing. > > Technical question time... > how abstract can we realistically make this? Are we talking about a > developer needing to make an explicit listing of packages or specific > provides per application? Or is this something that can be abstracted > so that when a specific library isn't on the system some package > install dialog sequence gets fired off? > > I'm guessing that abstraction really isn't possible here, and its > going to be a modest amount of work per tool to get the listings > accurate. The nice thing about s-i-p is that it works *exactly* like yum when resolving, so you can specify right down to the specific file you need and it will find the package and its deps. -- Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams <ivazqueznet@xxxxxxxxx>
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