Re: [Tracker] tracker dependencies notified on website

["Marcus Fritzsch" <fritschy googlemail com>]

On 7/31/07, Michael Biebl <mbiebl gmail com> wrote:
> 2007/7/30, tpgww onepost net <tpgww onepost net>:
> > It would be friendly to add to the website some pointers, at least to assist sourcing the more-obscure 
> > dependencies like libunac and libexempi.
>
> What specific information do you miss? The INSTALL file in the source
> tarball lists all necessary and optional dependencies.
> Besides, tracker should be/is available for all major distros, so if
> you're not so firm in compiling it yourself, just wait until your
> distro of choice has it.

Just that you mention it --- the INSTALL does not list anything except
general information on how to ./configure && make && make install.

Is there a way to specify packages in a distro-independant way, my
experience goes only as far as debian/arch/debian/gentoo or so :)?

Bye, Marcus