dependancies (was Re: [LUG] Suse 8.0)

[Aaron Trevena <betty@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, 7 Jun 2002, Jonathan Melhuish wrote:
> I guess it would be nice if there was a program that could search (and maybe 
> even download and install) these libraries automatically for you; does anyone 
> know if such a program is available?

Debian's apt-get apparently auto-fetches dependancies.
The FreeBSD ports system does funky magic of some kind along thsoe lines 
too.
Finally - we could just use perl, CPAN as stantard, fetches and compiles 
required dependancies when building perl modules. (but not unfortuately 
some C libraries)

A.

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