Re: new Package of the Day features
On Tuesday 04 July 2006 01:46 pm, Aaron Maxwell wrote:
> On Monday 03 July 2006 11:23 am, Angelina Carlton wrote:
> > Hi Aaron,
> > Have you removed -doc packages? personally I like to know about
> > -doc packages, and especially packaged books, like autobook and
> > rutetbook This stuff is nice to have IMHO.
>
> Yes, I've filtered those out. They don't add enough to justify
> keeping them in the rotation. Compare, for example, apt and apt-doc.
> Most descriptions for 'apt-foo' will be like 'Contains documentation
^^ This should read "Most descriptions for 'foo-doc' ", sorry
> for foo in various formats', and the interesting exceptions are rare.
> Similarly, -dev, -dbg, -i18n-, and some others are filtered out.
>
> Note that the filtering is currently just done by a regex on the
> package name, so .*book will be be left in. (autobook and rutebook
> are left out because they're in non-free, not because they're
> filtered.)
>
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>
> OT PS: aptitude -vvvvvv moo
>
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> Peace,
> Aaron Maxwell - http://redsymbol.net
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