Re: proposal: pear install-deps command

----- Original Message ----- From: "Greg Beaver" <greg@chiaraquartet.net> To: <pear-dev@lists.php.net> Sent: Sunday, June 08, 2003 6:38 AM Subject: Re: [PEAR-DEV] proposal: pear install-deps command > Hi, > > I agree with Hans. Perhaps the current install behavior could be supported > for those who might need it with a new command-line > > pear install --no-deps Package? pear install --nodeps <package> it's already in use, and tradicionaly used by rpm for installing a package without dependecy checking. I would preffer to throw an error like "<Package> depends on "foo", use `install --all´, to download/install all dependencies". Users have to be warned, that he will probably end installing a lot of packages. Doing like cpan which starts to download and compile dozen of packages and even upgrades the perl itself, it's disgussting imho. As a side note, I'm BIG -1 to any user question prompting :) Tomas V.V.Cox > > "Hans Lellelid" <hans@appliedsec.com> wrote in message > news:20030608011921.366E24A61E@punisher.appliedsec.com... > > > | I would like to propose a new command, install-deps. This > | command would work exactly like pear install, except that it > | would automatically install/upgrade required packages > | specified in the <deps> section. It should also prompt to > | install/upgrade optional dependencies. > > That seems very useful. My only thought is that this should be the default > behavior (maybe w/ confirmation) for the regular 'install' command. I can't > conceive of too many scenarios where I'd want to install a package w/o the > dependencies. Also I think emulating this APT / FreeBSD ports behavior is > intuitive to a lot of users. > > Hans > > > > > -- > PEAR Development Mailing List (http://pear.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php > >