mikshaw
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Posted: Nov. 15 2004,17:45 |
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1) Dependencies are supposed to be worked out by the person(s) who put together a DSL package. It's not the same as other package types such as RPM or DEB, which are built to be installed on many systems regardless of what is currently installed. DSL packages are designed to install in every standard DSL system, which has all the same apps installed.
It may be useful, though, to check for the presence of a dependency in case someone already installed it....particularly if it's a different version. At the same time, however, DSL packages *should* be created in such a way that they do not harm your system and work well next to other DSL packages.
Additionally, myDSL packages are made for use in a liveCD environment, and as such should not require any complex dependency checking/tracking. For that sort of thing, there is the dpkg system (DEB packages).
2) I very much agree =o)
4) What is a preview? Screenshot?
6) Many packages are already named with version. The architecture is unnecessary, in my opinion. I think any machine which runs DSL should be able to run its packages.
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