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From: Ian Campbell <Ian.Campbell@citrix.com>
Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCE] Project Raisin
Date: Wed, 1 Apr 2015 16:42:44 +0100
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On Wed, 2015-04-01 at 16:13 +0100, Stefano Stabellini wrote:
> > I think "raise" should take commands.  The main way package
> > prerequisites should be installed, I think, is for raise to give a
> > list of packages to the user, and the user to "sudo $PACKAGEMANAGER
> > install $LIST" themselves.
> 
> Giving commands to raise could be a good UI improvement, but I disagree
> on the package installation. In any case there is a way around that,
> using the -n option. Maybe we could consider making that the default.

Yeah, I think the default should be to do as George suggests and print
the prereqs as a list to be installed by the user, with an option
--auto-install-dependencies (or something shorter!)

Ian.