[maemo-developers] Creating a simple installer

[From: Ross Burton]

On Tue, 2007-12-18 at 19:41 +0200, Michael Stepanov wrote:
> I need to create a simple installer which should install my
> application and its dependencies. As I saw it's impossible to specify
> more than one package which should be installed in the Application
> Manager script - *.install (I can be wrong BTW). Another way is to
> create a meta-package but it's again impossible to install all
> packages listed in its section Depends.

Why is it impossible to create a dummy package which depends on all of
the packages you need installed?  In fact, why doesn't your application
depend on everything it needs anyway?

Ross
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