On Mon, Jan 11, 2016 at 05:43:45PM +0800, Paul Wise wrote: > On Mon, Jan 11, 2016 at 5:23 PM, Ansgar Burchardt wrote: > > So you don't want another component, but something that looks like a > > component in some places only? I.e. it behaves like a component in that > > it gets its own Packages (and Sources?) indices, but it has neither its > > own area in pool/ nor is it used in packages' Section field. > > Right. This would be nice for some other use-cases too, like cut-down > Packages/Sources files for special-purpose systems.
Correct. And that's why I was actually hoping that something like this could actually be a *generalization* of how Packages/Sources files are being generated, rather than a new special case to be added---which would certainly be a sign of bad design for this proposal. Cheers. -- Stefano Zacchiroli . . . . . . . z...@upsilon.cc . . . . o . . . o . o Maître de conférences . . . . . http://upsilon.cc/zack . . . o . . . o o Former Debian Project Leader . . . . . @zacchiro . . . . o o o . . . o . « the first rule of tautology club is the first rule of tautology club »
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