Re: Metapackaging
On Thu Aug 15, 2024 at 10:38 PM BST, Dmitrii Odintcov wrote:
> The existing tutorials on `equivs` tools are few and not very
> detailed, so I'm looking for some clarification.
>
> What do `equivs-control`/`build` do beyond what can already be
> accomplished with a `DEBIAN/control` file and `dpkg --build`?
Nothing, really. They in theory make the process easier/smoother.
I've long felt that they were overcomplicated in themselves: the
ideal UX should be not much more than "equivs package-name" =>
./package-name.deb generated, IMHO. I once had ambitions to add
that UX (either as a patch to equivs, or as a separate equivs-ng)
but I never got around to it.
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