On Wed, Jul 17, 2002 at 08:54:04AM -0300, Ben Armstrong wrote: > > Yes, something like that would be sufficient. Or perhaps Target-Audience > > which could just as easily be novice, sysadmin, or whatever? I haven't > > really given this the thought it deserves yet. Just figured I'd suggest > > it while it was in my mind that it would be a good thing. > > Debian Jr. needs menus tailored for a special user base: children. Andreas > Tille also has a special group of users to cater to with his project, > Debian-Med. He and I are working within the curent menu system with these > ideas: > > - each subgroup member should be part of a common Unix group > > - menus are one of several things that might be tailored for this group > > - in each Jr. or Med meta-package[1], the postinst will run a helper script > to populate ~/.menu/ for all members of the appropriate group > > - the Jr. and Med projects have their own top-level directory and the > Jr. and Med projects are free to structure the menus beneath these > top-level directories however we see fit What about - Perhaps X-Expertise-Level=(novice|intermediate|advanced) + Perhaps X-Expertise-Level=(junior|medium|novice|intermediate|advanced) And use some kind of similar parser idea as debconf? If a user/group has a request of a certain menu level, the parser creates entries for that level and all the packages belonging the the lower levels (i.e., if I request intermediate, i get also the junior ones). J -- Jesus Climent | Unix System Admin | Helsinki, Finland. http://www.HispaLinux.es/~data/ | data.pandacrew.org ------------------------------------------------------ Please, encrypt mail address to me: GnuPG ID: 86946D69 FP: BB64 2339 1CAA 7064 E429 7E18 66FC 1D7F 8694 6D69 ------------------------------------------------------ Registered Linux user #66350 Debian 3.0 & Linux 2.4.19 What is "real"? How do you define "real"? --Morpheus (The Matrix)
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