On Tue, 10 Mar 2009 09:54:31 -0800 Gabriel McCall <hellion_darklord@inbox.com> wrote: > Dear Debian Package Maintainers, > > Is there a definitive way to download packages for a machine that, > > Simpler yet would be a multimedia bundle, or perhaps a networking > bundle. If I simply wanted a media player installed on my system and > could download a package bundle which contained everything needed to > install that specific media player it would be much easier than > trying to download each individual package and install them all as > individual binary packages. You may want to look at http://wiki.debian.org/DebianCustomCD if apt-zip doesn't fulfill your needs. > > Please help me understand why this is not something that is easliy > found. Because it's not easy to do. Development of easier alternatives for making custom pools is ongoing (though slowly as most developers who need a pool also have hard drive space for a mirror for a particular architecture). Regards, Daniel -- And that's my crabbing done for the day. Got it out of the way early, now I have the rest of the afternoon to sniff fragrant tea-roses or strangle cute bunnies or something. -- Michael Devore GnuPG Key Fingerprint 86 F5 81 A5 D4 2E 1F 1C http://gnupg.org
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