On 7 Aug 1999, Manoj Srivastava wrote: > I think you misunderstand. "without any modification to any > existing packages, and hence policy.". As I read it, that means that > no packages need be modified, and thus this is not policy. And such is > the case.
That's kinda what I thought about this, but it was being pushed on the policy list so I thought I'd say something. > Jason> Somebody should sit down and write all the scripts and > Jason> modifications needed before trying to mandate this with policy > Jason> - besides a disk usage index does not really strike me as > Jason> something belonging in the policy domain. > > The scripts and all have been written -- all that is in the > proposal. The only thing needed is to modify dinstall, and then the > package selection/installation tools. Well, I haven't seen a patch to modify dinstall and I haven't seen a patch to modify dselect+apt either - so there is definately lots of work to still be done by someone. I also tend to disagree with including a du -s list in the control tar, the archive scripts can be made to generate such a list on the fly at the same time they generate the contents file. Jason
