>> "ADC" == Adam Di Carlo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
ADC> Martin Bialasinski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>> This is exactly the thing the equivs package will do.
ADC> Does equivs implement this through skullduggery, or does it make
ADC> nice metapackages which play nice?
Well, It could be exte
Enrique Zanardi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > Voila. Elegant, uses the existing packaging system (i.e., no need to
> > skip the select step in dselect),
>
> This is the main point against your approach. We introduced the tasks and
> profiles to avoid going through the list of 3000 packages in
Martin Bialasinski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> This is exactly the thing the equivs package will do.
Does equivs implement this through skullduggery, or does it make nice
metapackages which play nice?
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>> "EZ" == Enrique Zanardi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
EZ> with its changelog, control file, rules file and so on...). That
EZ> may probably be fixed by implementing a debhelper tool just for
EZ> building metapackages.
This is exactly the thing the equivs package will do.
Ciao,
Martin
On Sun, May 09, 1999 at 04:08:34PM -0400, Adam Di Carlo wrote:
>
> [Talking about tasks and profile from boot-floppies]
>
> > "brandon" == Brandon Mitchell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> brandon> I'd personally like to see a way to easily add a profile via
> brandon> dpkg -get-selections and
Brandon Mitchell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> [ woah, this is an old thread, but a good one to bring back. ]
Heh... yeah, I keep around email that I want to reply to, even though
it sometimes takes a month or so before I get a chance.
> Yes, the next frontend to apt (gnome-apt?) should handle t
On 9 May 1999, Adam Di Carlo wrote:
> [Talking about tasks and profile from boot-floppies]
>
> > "brandon" == Brandon Mitchell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> brandon> I'd personally like to see a way to easily add a profile via
> brandon> dpkg -get-selections and make for a cookie cutter inst
[Talking about tasks and profile from boot-floppies]
> "brandon" == Brandon Mitchell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
brandon> I'd personally like to see a way to easily add a profile via
brandon> dpkg -get-selections and make for a cookie cutter install
brandon> (think large labs).
Eh... I don'
On Saturday 30 January 1999, at 16 h 41, the keyboard of Paul Seelig
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Okay, let's be serious again: unfortunately this actually means that
> some of the most obvious installation profiles of slink stay to be
> unnecessarily bloated.
Giving the
Jonathan P Tomer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>a possibility i considered: divide user-space...packages into
>heirarchical groups (structure identical or similar to the debian
>menus, possibly?). have a level wherein the user selects any of these
>he wants; it will be easy to skip those things he
> Might it be possible to include fewer packages in each profile and then
> present the user with a list of additional packages that might be of
> interest to them given that they have chosen this particular profile?
> Something like "You have installed the Scientific Workstation profile. The
> fo
Paul Seelig writes:
> Myself i do prefer XEmacs over all other variants but wouldn't mind if
> i had to install it later on my own.
I prefer emacs, bu I also wouldn't mind if > i had to install it later on
my own. In fact, I would not mind at all if emacs was optional.
> IMHO it would be much wi
us again: unfortunately this actually means that
> some of the most obvious installation profiles of slink stay to be
> unnecessarily bloated. I consider this to be a bad move because the
> initial install is something like Debian's advertisement plate (or
> visiting card) and the in
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