RE: Is this really the right thing to do?
On Mon, 30 Nov 1998, Leandro Dutra wrote:
> > > > The developers of dpkg could do something like add a 'package
> > > grouping'
> > > > feature that lets newcomers (especially newbies to X11) understand the
> > > > relationship between packages.
> >
> > Is this a documentation issue? Maybe there is a requirement for a document
> explaining the general
> > layout of the packages. The grouping of packages seems to be ok.
>
> No, I think the original poster thought of a kind of hierarchical
> grouping where each program/function would be the root of a little tree
> detailing all its packages... something like
>
> X-+-xbase
> |
> +-xservers
> |
> +-xfonts
>
> Anyway, this is a thread that could (should) be in the debian-devel
> group...
Hi,
I think the user list is a proper forum for such thread, that
could be in debian-devel too.
Things could go simpler and with such splits of packages, they are
going harder to manage. dselect isn't easy to understand but after
several readings and tries in the docs, so becoming things easier is ''a
must' for the growth of debian. With 2700 packages, this is near to
impossible. Grouping seems to me that is the way to go. Sorry for the poor
english :-(
[]s,
Mario O.de Menezes | "Many are the plans in a man's heart, but
IPEN-CNEN/SP | is the Lord's purpose that prevails" Prov. 19.21
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