On Wed, Jun 20, 2001 at 10:26:39PM -0600, Matt Kraai wrote:
> This information should be kept within the packages themselves (or
> some override file).
For reference, I've got an updated version of debootstrap (0.2.1) that
mostly does this. It treats priority: required as $required, and priority:
important as $base, and then makes a few further modifications.
There are a few problems with this that might be addressable in the future:
* ppp, dhcp, pppoe, pcmcia-cs etc should be in base for some people,
but certainly aren't "important"
* some packages are important on one arch, but not on others
These're just handled by exceptions for the moment, and'll continue
to be for a while yet. The former would probably want some changes in
how b-f's call debootstrap (which might get a bit complicated), and
the latter would require changes to the override files (which would be
complicated from the outset).
The groff/groff-base issue and kin will work fine though.
Cheers,
aj
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