Re: A better apt...
There is the case of creating a system too complicated for anyone to
effectively use. Maybe should look at full text searching (ala altavista)
to perform selections. This is much more familiar and understandable.
Integrating Trove information would probably be a good idea once that
matures a bit more - sounds like it would take care of alot of this.
> It will server to make the package list look a lot cleaner as
> something like:
>
> xemacs20-bin 20.4-5
> xemacs20-mule 20.4-5
> xemacs20-mule-canna-wnn 20.4-5
> xemacs20-nomule 20.4-5
> xemacs20-support 20.4-5
> xemacs20-supportel 20.4-5
>
> Would all be collapsed into a group called xemacs20. The group would
> just be a package with nothing but a control file to describe stuff
> that is common among all the packages such as the description of the
> xemacs program the, rough version number (20.4), etc... A new tag
> called (perhaps) "base-package" in each of the individual packages
> will simply contain the name of the base packages in this case it
> would be:
This I do like, though how many packages like this do we really
have?
Jason
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