James Powell <james4...@hotmail.com> escribió: [...]
Devuan should follow the Debian methodology, but equally it should forge it's own path away from Debian. It doesn't need to draw from any other distribution like Funtoo, CRUX, Slackware, or anything other distributions, other than seeing what people are using and in need of. The wants will be many, but what users need will matter most of all.
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I have thought extensively (in some sort of silence, I suppose, since you have not heard of^H read from me for a long time) in this issue of packages and dependencies, and I have come across an idea, that of boxes.
Everyone that has anytime been trapped in the Dependency Hell knows about the complicated chains of dependencies in Debian. As a simple example, today it is impossible to install LibreOffice 5 and KDE together, since libreoffice 1:5.0.1~rc1-2 ends depending on libstdc++6 5.2.1-15 while kde-full 5:81 end depending on libkolabxml1 1.1.0-3 (the highest version available), but libstdc++6 Breaks libkolabxml1 <= 1.1.0-3
These chains of dependencies can be shortened if we use "boxes" of packages. They are not metapackages, but a new idea, albeit somewhat similar.
Why is LibreOffice worth a dozen packages? If I want LibreOffice, I want it all (Thanks, Queen). So I install the LibreOffice box. The box on its own will install the needed packages and care for the internal dependencies, and provide a shiny dependencies inteface to the other boxes. And of course, boxes can be inside boxes.
This way, boxes are managed as simple units, migrate from ceres to testing as complete units, etc. They also allow for efficient teamworking.
e.g. The LAMP box contains (and iterfaces with) the Apache box and the MySQL box. The LAMP box controls the migration of all of Apache, PHP and MySQL packages, to ensure they all work properly and are coinstallable.
Just two (or maybe three) euro cents. regards Noel er Envite
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