[maemo-developers] [maemo-developers] Aplication installer

[From: Gustavo Barbieri]

On 7/19/05, Renato Araujo Oliveira Filho <renato.filho at indt.org.br> wrote:
> 
> I made the abiword port to maemo, and i will make the deb package. The
> problem is that the package has some dependencies (libfribidi,
> libglade2, libgnomeprintui) that are not installed in maemo base. How do
> you suggest to solve this problem?

IMO you have 2 options:
 - put it all together and make it have no dependencies, maybe use
static linkage
 - have the package to have NO dependencies, but make it install the
other packages itself. This is a hack since it could be done by
apt-get, but help share libraries. In other words:
     if not dependency_installed(x):
        get(x)
        install(x)

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