Re: [Announce] Dependable - A dependency solver

From: Sybren Stuvel (sybrenUSE_at_YOURthirdtower.imagination.com)
Date: 09/16/03


Date: 16 Sep 2003 16:35:41 GMT

Dependable enlightened us with:
> Dependable is a minimal-dependency perl script which finds and
> installs the libraries necessary to install a particular piece of
> software. It can be called by various configure/install scripts and
> retrieve libraries from mounted directories, HTTP servers or FTP
> servers.

Is this still a useful tool for people using apt-get (Debian) or
emerge (Gentoo)?

Sybren

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