Ping (Was: Introducing DoudouLinux)

[Andreas Tille <andreas@an3as.eu>]

Hi Jean-Michel,

any news from Debian Jr.?

Kind regards

        Andreas.

On Wed, Aug 17, 2011 at 12:26:02AM +0200, Jean-Michel Philippe wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I see that customization of a meta-package selection is a hot topic
> ;) with no obvious solution since dependencies are not designed for
> meta-packages from ground. As far as I'm concerned, I was recently
> thinking that we can also use the fact that we disable
> recommendations in the DoudouLinux CD. As most people don't disable
> them on their computer, package selection in our meta-packages could
> work this way:
> 
> * dependencies → CD packages
> * recommendations → DVD or real install packages
> * suggestions → packages that are a bit out of scope (older
> children, console mode, dedicated to schools, more technical, etc.)
> 
> Of course this supposes that the meta-package author writes it with
> this particular idea in mind, so this may not be a general rule with
> meta-packages. However in my case, I will be the author!
> 
> This proposal will surely work for application packaged with
> separate plugins (if we don't want to install all of them on CD).
> But this is a bit more complicated for applications that may provide
> a high resolution data set and a low resolution one. My proposal in
> this case is to write a dependency as a OR rule:
> 
> Depends: foo-data-highres | foo-data-lowres
> 
> If we, in DoudouLinux, specify foo-data-lowres somewhere in our
> package list, I think we should end with the smaller installed size,
> while normal users should still have the standard highres data set
> installed.
> 
> JM.
> 
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