On 06:50, Thu 09 Feb 06, Rakesh 'arky' Ambati wrote:
Yes, Being a minimalist and not being a python lover I better stick with one run-time only. There is
Well - in cases like these I really don't care. There is enough disk space for another package and I'm really indifferent to stuff like this.
If I really need to be specific, I compile stuff from source... Like e17. The latest CVS checkout really rocks!
As the others packages like (podracer,alsa-utils,python-apt) depends on 'python' I made a dummy of that one. (Discussed in detail here http://bangalore.gnu.org.in/cgi-bin/ezmlm-browse?list=fsug-bangalore&cmd... )
Ya - I saw that much later on... Did not know about equivs myself.
When I need to make some quick and nice Debian packages I use 'epm' (Easy Package Manager) from ESP (the makers of CUPS). In fact, epm will lets you make packages for multiple distributions, if you want.
Have a great day ahead - everyone... -Abhas.