On Sat, Apr 28, 2001 at 10:55:22PM -0400, Joey Hess wrote: > Christian Hammers wrote: > > Would it be good to have a package task-debian that had dependencies to such > > "meta" packages (including the latest version of apt,debconf and dpkg) to > > ensure that users always get the latest Debian "maintenance"/"meta" > > packages > > if they wish so? > > Er, what would you think/do if you were a new user, and saw a list of tasks > like "Web Server", "X Desktop", and so on, and nestled in aoung them was > one titled, inexplicably. just "Debian"? > > If these tools become widly enough accepted that we think everyone > should have them available by default, we can make them standard > priority.
Perhaps it would be useful to create a new archive section for Debian-specific tools. There seem to be more written all the time, and it would be nice to be able to easily browse a list of them. Things like apt-zip, grep-dctrl, deborphan, debfoster, dlocate, debsums, dpkg-dev-el, dput, and reportbug come to mind as likely candidates for such a section. There's no reason to make them standard, as only a small percentage of users are likely to be be interested in them, and a meta-package doesn't make sense as they don't represent a group of packages that should be installed together. -- - mdz
