-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Mon, May 12, 2008 at 10:23:33AM -0700, Vagrant Cascadian wrote: >On Mon, May 12, 2008 at 10:51:40AM +0200, Jonas Smedegaard wrote:
>> I'd like to install "compilers" without such hosts becoming >> "servers". That becomes tricky with your approach. > >you simply need to install ltsp-server without the recommended >packages... I do know how dependencies work. I do know that I can opt-out from recommends. So you find it sane to "recommend" the whole LTSP environment even to users that explicitly avoid your -standalone package? Like advertisings: Do you want to buy all our crap or do you want us to spam you first with offers about our crap? No, you cannot avoid the spam, but it is really easy to just delete it as it comes in... >> What is the logic behind the current package split? Why don't you >> like the separate package approach anymore? > >the logic is that ltsp-server-standalone depends on *all* of the >functionality, whereas ltsp-server will *typically* have most of the >core functionality(as recommends are pulled in by default), but allow >you to strip it down to a bare-bones if needed(by avoiding installation >or removing the undesired daemons). I do understand how dependencies work. My question was about the _intend_ of the chosen dependencies. It seems to me that you provide two packages aimed at fullfilling same needs, while I miss a package with a more limited (and, admitted, less common - who keeps those old iMacs around still?) scope. I mean - if only you provided a single package I could understand it recommending daemons, but you provide 2 packages - ltsp-server-standalone that ensures everything works, and ltps-server with what different aim? If you do not want to expand with a new binary package, then how about lowering daemon dependencies to suggests for the ltsp-server package? - Jonas - -- * Jonas Smedegaard - idealist og Internet-arkitekt * Tlf.: +45 40843136 Website: http://dr.jones.dk/ - Enden er nær: http://www.shibumi.org/eoti.htm -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFIKJcVn7DbMsAkQLgRAu5vAJ9TnJuZoYdDgbLnDI92qmMVAa3ibgCfeSKb GjNu5ZUORwywZiDC0vJB9F8= =nFNk -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
