Re: proposal: pear install-deps command

On Sat Jun 07, 2003 at 05:2814PM -0600, Greg Beaver wrote: > 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 sounds like a cool idea, but we really need to take care that the dependecies of other packages aren't broken during the installation. Example: * Package XYZ (which is already installed) depends on PHP <= 4.0.3 * Package ABC depends on PHP > 4.0.3 => During the installation of ABC, PHP 4.0.4 will be installed (at least theoretically) and this XYZ will not work anymore. This is a bad thing [tm] and has to be avoided. -- - Martin Martin Jansen http://martinjansen.com/