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Re: Bundles in Debian



Frank Lichtenheld dijo [Thu, Oct 04, 2007 at 09:50:51PM +0200]:
> > I've been thinking a bit on this - On one hand, it'd _very_ easy to
> > generate Debian virtual packages fulfilling exactly the same role as
> > CPAN bundles. In any case, I'd like to come up with a proper naming
> > scheme for this - Bundles should not, IMHO, be called just like
> > regular CPAN packages, as they are not providing any modules with that
> > name (i.e., having libbundle-test-perl would be plainly wrong in my
> > opinion, as users would expect having Bundle/Test.pm in it just for
> > consistency). We could probably call them without the initial "lib"?
> > For example, bundle-test-perl.
> 
> Just for clarification: With "virtual packages" you mean "meta packages"
> here, right? Actual "virtual packages" wouldn't help here, AFAICT.

Yes, sorry.

/me shoves developer reference in head...

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