[plug] Installer

[Cameron Patrick]

On Mon, Feb 24, 2003 at 03:46:21PM +0800, Dene Staples wrote:

| What if all  programmers have a bit in their progs which lists the
| earliest (or only) dependencies they work with. The installer reads this
| list and goes to linux depositories, downloads them AND installs them
| along with the programme. For those not on the net, perhaps some
| linux-based firm in the main population centres could have cd or dvd
| collections to purchase at cost?

What you are describing already exists.  The automatic downloader is
apt-get and the 7-CD collection of pre-compiled software is called
"Debian".

CP.