Hello, Proposal: Using the "Enhances:" field a bit more, so that packages that are related become really so. Examples: Package: libapache2-mod-foobar Enhances: apache2 Package: foo-game-levels Enhances: foo-game Package: (phpgroupware|webmin|zope|openoffice)-foobar Enhances: (phpgroupware|webmin|zope|openoffice) Rationale: A feature request I often heard around debtags is to group packages that are part of the same 'suite'. This would allow a package manager to connect a package with all of its plugins, modules, documentation and helper tools. So far we tried to do it in debtags using a group of tags called 'suite'; however, while this is good for things that are really suites ot software like Gnome or KDE, it is not really helpful to group little groups of related packages like a package, its related development library, its documentation and a couple of plugins. For those cases, a more finer-grained approach would be needed. One idea is to use the already existing but not that used Enhances field. Thoughts? Ciao, Enrico -- GPG key: 1024D/797EBFAB 2000-12-05 Enrico Zini <enrico@debian.org>
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