[Gllug] Controversial Joel Spolsky article

[Pete Ryland]

On Sun, Dec 21, 2003 at 11:10:27AM +0100, John Hearns wrote:
> Indeed. This sounds interesting (haven't tried it myself)
> http://themes.freshmeat.net/articles/view/1049

See also auto-apt.

To quote http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/apt-howto/ch-search.en.html

| 5.3 How to install packages "on demand"
| 
| You're compiling a program and, all of a sudden, boom! There's an error
| because it needs a .h file you don't have. The program auto-apt can save
| you from such scenarios. It asks you to install packages if they're
| needed, stopping the relevant process and continuing once the package is
| installed.
| 
| What you do, basically, is run:
| 
|      # auto-apt run command
| 
| Where `command' is the command to be executed that may need some
| unavailable file. For example:
| 
|      # auto-apt run ./configure
| 
| It will then ask to install the needed packages and call apt-get
| automatically. If you're running X, a graphical interface will replace the
| default text interface.
| 
| Auto-apt keeps databases which need to be kept up-to-date in order for it
| to be effective. This is achieved by calling the commands auto-apt update,
| auto-apt updatedb and auto-apt update-local. 

Pete
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