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Re: Task "main" for Debian Games



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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