> And maybe
> prevent installing any 'non-newbie' packages
> ("Sorry, your system level is set to 'newbie'. To install
> 'complex-manually-configured-package', you must turn this off first)
> [And if you can't figure out how to turn it off, you are too newbie]
Uh... how about we avoid hand
On Fri, 18 Aug 2000, Edward Betts wrote:
> I agreed with everything else that you said, you give a good example of how
> subpackaging could be implemented using dpkg. However, one of my concerns as a
> low bandwidth user is transferring stuff. Great, I can split my debs up into
>
Anthony Towns wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 17, 2000 at 08:58:31PM +0100, Edward Betts wrote:
> First, including each architecture and source in every .deb suddenly
> balloons our 3 CD set to get i386 binaries to a ~15 CD set. It also
> kills non-broadband net upgrades (you *really* want to download six
>
s likely to at least lost all the optional
> components (copyrights, docs, manpages...).
There is that, I admit.
I agreed with everything else that you said, you give a good example of how
subpackaging could be implemented using dpkg. However, one of my concerns as a
low bandwidth user is tran
On Fri, 18 Aug 2000, Anthony Towns wrote:
> It's not *entirely* clear that including the above in the .deb itself
> is even the best way of doing things though. Everything in the above
> is entirely package-independent except for the "doc" lines, and they
> can be determined simply by saying "ever
On Thu, Aug 17, 2000 at 08:58:31PM +0100, Edward Betts wrote:
> How about a little brainstorming to pick some categories that could be used
> in debian.
>
> Possible layout
> ~~~
> control.tar.gzpackage system stuff, depends, postinst, etc
> signatures.tar.gz signat
Edward Betts <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> How would it be implemented?
>
> My recommendation would be one directory per package. Each subpackage could
> just be part of a .tar.gz file. Having the binary dependent parts listed here
> would imply that the package locate c
Decklin Foster <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I like the plan a lot. some thoughts:
Glade to hear it.
> I wonder if the default docs should not go in a locale/ subdir for the
> proper language (English for most of what exists now). I know very
> little about i18b so I won't comment on the implement
Edward Betts writes:
> Possible layout
> ~~~
I like the plan a lot. some thoughts:
> doc/examples.tar.gz /usr/share/doc/examples/*
> locale/*/gettext.tar.gz gettext translations
I wonder if the default docs should not go in a locale/ subdir for the
proper language (English
Drake Diedrich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Under the Irix packaging system (quite nice UI except that it has to
> handle Irix packages..) packages exist in a hierarchy, with lowest level
> packages quite fine grained. For example:
>
> I fw_bzip2 02/28/2000 bzip2-0.9.0c Compress/
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