Re: Package unions (fwd)
We could do this sort of union thing fairly simply and get Bruce's
"Install Group" things as well.
Behan, if you like it and cook some kind of design up it can be done..
Jason
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Date: Tue, 27 Jan 1998 12:48:50 -0500 (EST)
From: Will Lowe <harpo@udel.edu>
To: Stefan Karrmann <karrmann@math.uni-karlsruhe.de>
Cc: Debian Developers <debian-devel@lists.debian.org>
Subject: Re: Package unions
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On Tue, 27 Jan 1998, Stefan Karrmann wrote:
> Have you ever thougt of package unions?
I proposed something similar once a few months back as a way to provide
default system installations. We could have, for instance, a package
entitled "simple-debian" that would have no actual binaries, just
a list of required packages. A new user could select this package for
install, and by allowing dselect to resolve all the "require"s, end up
with a simple preconfigured debian linux system, because "simple-debian"
would depend on smail, on base, etc...
I don't think it's a matter of adding anything to dpkg, but more a matter
of devising the empty packages and their control files.
Will
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