Re: Package unions
On Tue, 27 Jan 1998, Stefan Karrmann wrote:
> Have you ever thougt of package unions?
I proposed something similar once a few months back as a way to provide
default system installations. We could have, for instance, a package
entitled "simple-debian" that would have no actual binaries, just
a list of required packages. A new user could select this package for
install, and by allowing dselect to resolve all the "require"s, end up
with a simple preconfigured debian linux system, because "simple-debian"
would depend on smail, on base, etc...
I don't think it's a matter of adding anything to dpkg, but more a matter
of devising the empty packages and their control files.
Will
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