Re: Choosing Debian version or derivative to run Wine when resource poor

[Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net>]

Zenaan Harkness wrote:
> [SNIP]
> > >   The same software likely is available for Debian too, but I
> > > don't know if there are meta packages available too,
> >
> > I've been wanting to understand meta-packages for a personal
> > project. Gives me one more assignment. If retirement isn't for
> > learning and expanding horizons, what good is it ;/
>
> Recommended!
> I found it easy, that was ~8 years ago, probably easier now.
>
> Look at package equivs,

That approach for creating a meta-package has been suggested 
before 
(http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2013/09/thrd3.html#01172).
But http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/apt-howto/ch-helpers.en.html
seems to suggest to me that would not be the preferred tool. But 
then again my Google searches haven't led me to anything else. 
There *IS* a reason I do all my experiments on a physically 
isolated machine. <GRIN>


 followed by:
> # Quick and dirty local packages repo: dpkg-scanpackages . /dev/null |
> gzip - > Packages.gz

I "knew" dpkg-scanpackages. But I could not recall its name. Thanks.

> Good luck
> Zenaan