On Fri Nov 23, 2007 at 08:32:03 +1100, Alex Samad wrote:
> > <nitpick>
> > This sounds more like a meta-package.
> > </nitpick>
> sounds interesting, did a quick google and found debian-med ? is this the
> stuff you are talking about ?
debian-med is an example of a meta-package.
A meta-package is a package which exists soley to pull in
dependencies. For example I use several packages upon
my desktop to customise my environment:
steve-desktop
- This package installs no files, but it depends upon
things like 'iceweasel', 'emacs21', etc. This means
a simple 'apt-get install steve-desktop' will get me
most of the programs I care about in one go.
steve-completion
- Installs a bunch of files into /etc/bash_completion.d/ to
give additional bash completion.
Creation meta-packages can be done easily via the 'equivs'
package. (See 'apt-cache show equivs' for a brief intro)
Meta-packages, and packages for configuration files, are a little
advanced for typical users, but they are remarkably useful.
Steve
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