Re: Proposing task-debian
On Sat, Apr 28, 2001 at 10:55:22PM -0400, Joey Hess wrote:
> Christian Hammers wrote:
> > Would it be good to have a package task-debian that had dependencies to such
> > "meta" packages (including the latest version of apt,debconf and dpkg) to
> > ensure that users always get the latest Debian "maintenance"/"meta" packages
> > if they wish so?
>
> Er, what would you think/do if you were a new user, and saw a list of tasks
> like "Web Server", "X Desktop", and so on, and nestled in aoung them was
> one titled, inexplicably. just "Debian"?
>
> If these tools become widly enough accepted that we think everyone
> should have them available by default, we can make them standard
> priority.
Perhaps it would be useful to create a new archive section for Debian-specific
tools. There seem to be more written all the time, and it would be nice to be
able to easily browse a list of them. Things like apt-zip, grep-dctrl,
deborphan, debfoster, dlocate, debsums, dpkg-dev-el, dput, and reportbug come
to mind as likely candidates for such a section. There's no reason to make
them standard, as only a small percentage of users are likely to be be
interested in them, and a meta-package doesn't make sense as they don't
represent a group of packages that should be installed together.
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- mdz
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