Stephan Binner wrote:

> On Wednesday 11 December 2002 02:04, James Richard Tyrer wrote:
> 
>> The major problem for most people remains: you need to install a lot of
>> libraries to install KDE from source -- or if you have installed the
>> libraries with RPMs, you need to install a lot of 'devel' packages to
>> build
> 
> Dirk already suggested this too: A simple distribution detection (as
> simple as checking for e.g. /etc/SuSE-release and content) and querying
> rpm/apt/portage about installed packages which
> required/recommended/optional packages are not installed and displaying
> the result. The lists could of course only work with much user
> contribution and could not be maintained by a single person. :-)
> 
That could turn out to be quite a big job.
For starters you'd have to support (at least) the RPM databases from RedHat,
SuSE and other major RPM based distributions, Debian's .deb, and
Slackware's .tgz packages, FreeBSD's ports, as well as other distributions
using less common package systems (how would you handle AIX? Solaris?).


/Jesper Juhl

 
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