Re: GNOME App Install

["Gustavo Franco" <stratus@debian.org>]

On 6/25/07, Sebastian Heinlein <debian@glatzor.de> wrote:
> Am Sonntag, den 24.06.2007, 22:43 +0200 schrieb Julian Andres Klode:
> > > But there are still some open question that are worth a discussion. On
> > > of the main concepts of g-a-i is to make enabling additional and third
> > > party repositories as easy as possible. But do we want this in Debian?
> > I think we should do this.
> >
> > > The application data will be separated into three packages:
> > > app-install-data-debian-main, app-install-data-debian-contrib and
> > > app-install-data-non-free.
> >
> > the number of .desktop files in contrib and non-free is too low
>
> Actually there are people who don't want any references to non-free
> software on their system. I would like to still support this.

Agreed.

While we're at it, would be good deuglify and integrate tasksel
functionality into g-a-i. Upstream stuff I know, but I don't think
that will be too hard if you want to do more than packaging. I can
give guidance if you're interested.

cheers,
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