[Distutils] Buildout recipe for managing .deb packages?

[Matthias Klose]

Kent Tenney schrieb:
> On Thu, Apr 9, 2009 at 2:38 PM, Jim Fulton <jim at zope.com> wrote:
>> On Apr 9, 2009, at 3:37 PM, Kent Tenney wrote:
>>
>>> Howdy,
>>>
>>> Is there a recommended way to manage Debian system
>>> packages with a buildout?
>>
>> I can't imagine why you would want to. I probably don't know what you're
>> asking.
> 
> to get an app to run or compile I do a bunch of
> sudo apt-get install xxxx
> 
> This can involve tedious trial and error.
> 
> Maybe I like the app, maybe I don't.
> 
> If I like it, I want a convenient format in which to remember
> the required packages, automate their installation,
> provide convenience when building machines.
> 
> If I don't like it, I'd like to remove the packages I installed.

if you remove the packages manually, that you did install directly, you can get
rid of the dependencies by running apt-get autoremove. afaik there's currently
no way to install a package marked for autoremoval by hand.

  Matthias