Re: ITC: dpkg-sysconfig

[mdanish@andrew.cmu.edu]

> > > The problem is not too much packages but an inadquate package
> > > organisation. HInt: subpackages.
> > > *t
> >
> > I do not really understand? Do you want a better organisation on the
> > packages that are in debian, or on my tool or on 'configuration' packages?
> 
> Yes, I'm dreaming of a better package organisation, where one can do
> finer grained selection of optional parts of a package like on Windoze.
> 
> What I wanted to say is that Debian will not be able to avoid the problem
> in the long term any way. So I wouldn't *not* do things just because
> the infrastructure is not adequate (yet!) for the solution.
> *t
> 
Are you thinking of something like: package "GNOME" with sub-packages
"gnome-session", "libgnome32", "libgtk1.2" and so on and so forth?
Rather reminiscent of what tasks are; but they would be "super-packages"
instead.  Maybe by allowing more granularity within the tasks themselves
(like selection of optional parts, correct me if this is already the
case) you can achieve the same effect.

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