On Tue, May 19, 1998 at 06:03:40PM +0200, Andreas Jellinghaus wrote: > > the whole priorty system has a major flaw : > the user decides what is important - a firewall needs other programs than a > xterminal, a workstation or a file/web/... server. > > suggestion: drop the priority thing at all. it's ok to save packages in a flat > system, but for navogation a deeper system with mor information could improve > things a lot. The two priorities that seem important to me are Required and Extra. Required is ... required and Extra is for stuff that may break things or you probably don't need/want in a "normal" system, ie stuff for devel kernels, etc. > example : > > interpreters/libwww-perl > is ok for a filename. > > lang/perl/modules/www > is a better descriptive name (it's a subpart of perl, a module, and > called www - if you know cpan (as every perl programmer does), > this name i easier to understand). > > look at the mail/ dir - it could be splited in > mail/transport > mail/reader > mail/utils > > with a good navigation you could skip the whole lang/perl tree if you are not > interested in it. This would be nice although we'd have to work the categories a little for things that fit in more than one place. > the other thing debian needs is lists of packages as coarse adjustment. e.g.: > "firewall - everything you need to build, run and maintain a firewall" > you can do fine tuneing later. this should also be splitted in two parts - > a base set and add on packs. e.g base pack "x11 development workstation" > and extension packs "graphic development", "c/c++ development" ... This would be hard to do I think.
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