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Re: Packaging r-bioc-simpleaffy



1) Debian packages are not supposed to edit the configuration
   of other packages.

2) apt-get provides /etc/apt/sources.list.d/

I am correct to assume that if a Debian packages needs to
modify sources.list (indirectly) it should drop a .conf file
into /etc/apt/sources.list.d/ ?

If so we could

- provide a meta package r-cran-repository which

	- installs /etc/apt/sources.list.d/r-cran-repository.conf
		- post-install runs "apt-get update" ?

	- Suggests: a few main packages in r-cran-repository
		- that way "apt-get --install-suggests install r-cran-repository" acts like an "R-CRAN task"
		- Does that even work with already-installed packages ?
		- if not we'd want/need an r-cran-most-common.deb Depends: r-cran-repository

	- Lists: all (?) packages in r-cran-repository
		- that way "apt-cache search some-r-cran-package" would find r-cran-repository and/or r-cran-most-common

I'm sure there's flaws in this scheme. Please find them.

Karsten
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