Bill Gatliff wrote: > Neil Williams wrote: >> I'm just a little happy right now - I've just built and uploaded the >> last dependency for GPE in Emdebian. >> > > Great!! > > I'm turning into a big emdebian fan. It's everything about Debian that > I like, and nothing about Debian that I don't like. > > Tastes great, less filling! :) Don't forget the machine/variant customisation - you can build your own package sets because no package is deemed "essential" anymore. Once I've got GPE in a better state, I'm also looking at extending machine/variant so that packages can be rebuilt locally with modified patches so that particular machines can disable or re-enable a particular ./configure option for fine tuning. http://www.emdebian.org/emdebian/customisation.html http://www.emdebian.org/emdebian/machinevariants.html >> Quite annoying how persistent some Debian packages are about >> manpages. The only long term solution is for dpkg to drop them from the >> call to dpkg-deb because there are so many ways that manpages can make >> it into the package. >> > > I would have loved for manpages to always be confined to <pkg>-man, kind > of like how you see <pkg>-doc sometimes. I like the policy of always > having them available, but like you, I don't always want them around... Maybe. If Tdebs get widespread support, it would make little sense to force *all* users to have English manpages if a translated manpage also exists so maybe Debian could be persuaded to only install manpages for supported locales and only use English as a last resort. With the prevalence of the "hard disc space is cheap" mantra, I suspect that it will simply be a case of adding translated manpages on top so it'll be left to Emdebian and similar groups to implement the single-copy-and-fallback option. -- Neil Williams ============= http://www.data-freedom.org/ http://www.nosoftwarepatents.com/ http://www.linux.codehelp.co.uk/
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