Re: Please check whether your package is mentioned in tasks files (Was:RFS: FreeFOAM)
On Tue, Jun 12, 2012 at 12:11:49PM +0200, Thibaut Paumard wrote:
>
> I'm the maintainer for all these packages. The packages I suggested for
> the astronomy task are the most astronomy specific and are (mostly)
> usable by people who don't know yorick yet. On the other hand, most
> users who actually run the yorick interpreter will want to install all
> the other plug-ins as well.
Without having the slightest idea about yorick this somehow smells like
it might make sense to create a metapackage which installs all yorick
plug-ins in one rush. We could in turn make the science-astronomy
metapackage suggesting this.
> Yorick itself (and some other plug-ins) is a dependency of each of the
> yorick-* package, so it doesn't need to be suggested by the task, other
> than for information to the users.
OK, sounds reasonable. What do you think about the
yorick-install-all-plugins metapackage approach?
Kind regards
Andreas.
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