On 03.02.2014 16:24, Andreas Tille wrote: > Hi Markus, > > I confirm that I subscribed this list now - there is no need to keep me > in CC any more. :-) Great. :-) >> However it would be great if we could get the sorting for free. >> Obviously the blends framework already separates packages by section >> within a task file and displays the output on the website. If the system >> can already separate packages by section, it will most likely be able to >> automatically create metapackages based on task dependencies and >> belonging of a package to main/contrib/non-free. (I guess that's what >> you are referring to in your last paragraph under point 3. > > I'm not really sure what you mean be this. From the web sentinel point > of view you get the separation between main and contrib/non-free ... it > seems your 'main' task does not fetch from contrib/non-free. Otherwise > there would be such section. I was thinking aloud whether it was possible not only to get the separation for the web sentinel but also for the metapackages for free. [...] >>> 3. I'm not convinced that a metapackage simply throwing in all and >>> everything is what users really want. >> >> Well, I assume not many users want to have all games installed on their >> computer. But if we got metapackages for free simply by adding other >> meta-dependencies to them, then why not? > > I will surely not veto your decision. It is just something we did not > before and if you are aware about the potential issues I'm perfectly > fine with this. What kind of potential issues do you see? Regards, Markus
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