Re: Upcoming Section changes in the archive
Joerg Jaspert wrote:
> The new sections are:
>
> ruby Everything about ruby, an interpreted object oriented
> language.
> java Everything about Java
> video Video viewers, editors, recording, streaming
> fonts Font packages
> gnustep The Gnustep environment
> xfce The XFCE Desktop, fast and lightweight Desktop
> Environment.
> httpd Webservers and their modules
> localisations Language packs
> debug Debug packages
> lisp Everything about Lisp
> vcs Version control systems
> haskell Everything about haskell
> zope Zope/Plone Framework
> database Databases
> kernel Kernel and Kernel modules
What about creating a 'libs' section for different languages?
Something like libs-ruby, libs-perl, libs-python, libs-java, libs-r, ...
This would allow to split the big 'libs' section and this avoid to put
libs (ie mostly automatic pulled packages) in sections where the user
search for applications (for example 'java' for programs that help to
write java development, ...)
It is also easier for tools such as deborphan to find libraries that
are not needed anymore. I know that the 'auto' flag should solve this
problem but it often happens for me to switch from auto to noauto when
trying to upgrade a package with 'apt-get install package' and no new
version of 'package' is available (in this case, the effect of
'apt-get install package' is to mark 'package' as 'noauto')
Regards,
Vincent
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