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Re: Is it time to abandon Dpkg?


On Mon, 23 Dec 1996, Chris Fearnley wrote:

> >c) create meta packages (why don't  gcc, binutils etc in one step. it's
> >not useful in most cases, to install only one of them.
> 
> This is not the cureall that I and others originally thought.  In a
> previous post I listed the selectmenu.cfg that I'm working on.  It
> allows one to add menu items that would serve as "meta packages"
> without having the meta package burried amid the listing of all 800
> available packages (see meta packages per se don't help any).

What if:

meta packages are nestable

dselect allows one to click on the name of a meta package, to see its
component packages

dselect has a facility for saying "I want all packages suggested (or
recommended, or...) by this metapackage - IE, everything from here "down")

dselect memorizes what modifications people make to the "standard
inclusion/exclusion tree", and reuses them by default, but allows
resetting to the default again, &c.

Top level packages could be along the lines of:

	developer stuff
	end user stuff
	minimalist stuff

	ethernetted host
	host with slip and/or ppp
	isolated host

	X
	mgr
	svgalib

&c.

There should, of course, still be a simple way of getting to a list of
absolutely all packages, but it shouldn't be foisted upon everyone who
installs debian.  Perhaps a "flatten" function that accepts a number of
levels to flatten out.

(I don't expect this to be the end-all in designs, but it might spur
someone onto an interesting chain of thoughts)



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