On Mon, Mar 25, 2002 at 05:57:01PM +0100, Fabio Massimo Di Nitto wrote: > Jeroen Dekkers wrote: > >Apt-get can then simple look at the date and/or md5sum to choose if > >the pool dir package file is downloaded. It could also be done lazy > >and only when apt-get actually needs the information it will be > >downloaded, probably this should be a configuration option. > > > >Any new ideas and constructive critics are welcome, it's just a simple > >thought of mine. :) > > > What about applying to a similar structure that is used for main contrib > non-free?? > > something like base admin net so that a sources.list file can look like: > > deb <mirror>/debian unstable main/base main/net contrib/* non-free/web > > where * means all the sub categories that belongs to contrib. > at this point I think 2 problems can be solved in one shot: Well, I'm not sure what the best approach is. I think we should just generate a lot of different Package files based on the control fields of the package. For example I was thinking about adding a license field to it, then you can have license/dfsg-free, license/fsf-free, license/gpl, license/fdl, license/bsd, license/x11 etc. > 2) give the end user a higher flexibility in selecting pkgs > (EX: why do I need to have gnome-audio if Im installing a dns > server?? maybe on > an old i386??? ;) ) I think this is one of the important reasons. Jeroen Dekkers -- Jabber supporter - http://www.jabber.org Jabber ID: jdekkers@jabber.org Debian GNU supporter - http://www.debian.org http://www.gnu.org IRC: jeroen@openprojects
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