El lun, 06-08-2007 a las 00:17 -0700, Russ Allbery escribió: > José "L. Redrejo" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > However most of the "meat" is provided by the packages wims-extra-xx, > > which contain hundreds of educational modules (this number hopefully > > will grow quickly). In July 2007, the installed size of wims-extra-all > > is roughly 200 MBytes. Some webmasters might want to install less rich > > sets of modules, for example only the modules localised in their > > language, or a set of modules targeted to a particular domain of study. > > There is already a package wims-extra-es with Spanish-only modules, and > > some other packages might be made available in the near future, like a > > French-only collection, or a collection dedicated to physics and > > chemistry, etc. > > > The current wims maintainer (who is in the cc'ed list for this mail) > > asked me to sponsor this package, and, after some conversations with > > him, we both agree that wims package should have a recommends to a > > virtual package called "wims-extra", so people may provide packages for > > the "meat" with their particular flavor, while the package > > wims-extra-all providing wims-extra would be part of the official > > distribution. > > I don't think I understand from this what the specification of a package > that would Provide wims-extra would be. >
> A virtual package exists to satisfy a dependency on a specific piece of > functionality. For example, ispell needs a dictionary, packages need to > depend on a mail transport agent, and Emacs add-ons are only useful if > some version of Emacs is installed. > I think I understand it perfectly. It just a problem of what you and me can understand as a functionality. You use the ispell example and I can use the openoffice.org-l10n-2.2 virtual package that works exactly as we say wims-extra should work: providing a functionality to a metapackage. Anyway, I don't care about it anymore, as Magnus Holmgren said in a previous comment to this bug, we can use it "privately, amongst a cooperating group of packages", and that's probably the rightest solution to this issue. Regards. José L.
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