Sorry for the late answer...
> 3) How would synaptic (for instance) know which packages have which
> images? I suppose you would need a Packages-like file with this
> information... (This will not be incorporated in the main Packages
> file... not before this idea being proved as possible and usefull)...
I am coding since around 4 years a "X-ControllCenter" (without the
need of KDE or GNOME, ist better then Yast2 :-) ) and the integrated
Package installer (using apt-get) use the same directory structure as
the packages but while the packages are using for example
ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian stable main
this pics are using
ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian-pics stable main
Insteed of the DEB, there is a configfile with all required infos like
1) Larger description
2) link to logo
3) link to screenshoot1 + short description1
link to screenshoot2 + short description2
...
Which mean, no one need to download the whole stuff, only the files
someone is interested. On the other hand, I have DEB's from each
Debian Package, which can be installed seperatly in /var/lib/apt-pics/
and it create the Directory structure...
Its like
apt-get install <package>-aptpics
And the idea to have 29 TAR-Archives with the PICS of immense size is
not acceptable for me.
Better to create 15.000 additional DEB's with pics and additonal
descriptoons (per screenshoot) and make Meta packages to instal with
apt-get install aptpics-all (for installing the
whole pics-archive)
or
apt-get install aptpics-x (for installing per
LETTER archive)
Think about it...
For this time it is just an idea.
Greetings
Michelle Konzack
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