On Tue, Dec 02, 2003 at 05:38:15AM +1100, Zenaan Harkness wrote:
> * you can't always create a flavour to do what you want
# From a currently installed machine (or chroot)...
shell$ dpkg --get-selections > selections
shell$ vim selections
shell$ mv selections desktop.selections
shell$ mailx -s 'my desktop selections' friend@domain.tld < \
> desktop.selections
# on friend's computer
shell$ dpkg --get-selections > my.selections
shell$ diff my.selections desktop.selections
shell$ sudo dpkg --set-selections < desktop.selections
shell$ sudo apt-get dselect-upgrade -u
> * improving our mechanisms for supporting "flavours" helps derived
> distros and their users
I'd be in favor of setting up user's favorite selections lists. Perhaps
this would be appropriate for community forum sites, such as
DebianPlanet.org? KISS. If the solution isn't simple and elegant, it's
probably not ready for prime time. Distributing selection lists via
forums, websites and the like is an easy way of creating flavors w/o
making structural changes to the Debian project or increasing the
package dependency jungle.
If you find your "flavor" is quite popular and isn't being sufficiently
covered by an existing Debian Subproject, propose a new one.
--
Chad Walstrom <chewie@wookimus.net> http://www.wookimus.net/
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