On Sat, May 22, 1999 at 05:18:24PM -0400, Adam Di Carlo wrote:
> > "Philip" == Philip Hands <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
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> Philip> How about creating a new section ``profiles'' for them, so
> Philip> that they are all grouped together in dselect ?
>
> I think it's a little too early for new
> "Philip" == Philip Hands <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Philip> How about creating a new section ``profiles'' for them, so
Philip> that they are all grouped together in dselect ?
I think it's a little too early for new sections. The boot-floppies
team, in particular, wanted to see someone imp
On Fri, May 21, 1999 at 12:38:16AM -0400, Adam Di Carlo wrote:
> Christian Meder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
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> > On Wed, May 19, 1999 at 08:32:29PM -0400, Adam Di Carlo wrote:
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> > > I suggest we all follow naming conventions, i.e., 'metapkg-*', so that
> > > it's easy to pick these babies out
Adam Di Carlo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Christian Meder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
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> > When this idea was tossed around for the first time (around Sep 1998) we
> > settled for profile-* packages.
>
> I'm amenable to using 'profile-*' naming. Martin?
How about creating a new section ``pro
Christian Meder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> On Wed, May 19, 1999 at 08:32:29PM -0400, Adam Di Carlo wrote:
> > I suggest we all follow naming conventions, i.e., 'metapkg-*', so that
> > it's easy to pick these babies out.
> When this idea was tossed around for the first time (around Sep 1998)
On Wed, May 19, 1999 at 08:32:29PM -0400, Adam Di Carlo wrote:
> Josip Rodin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
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> > > what about creating empty packages only to satisfy dependancies and
> > > be able to install loosy related set of packages. Metapackage
> > > seems to be the right name for such creatur
>> "JL" == John Lapeyre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
JL> I really like the how-to-install-gnome page.
Thanks.
JL> Other packages that could use similar pages are X, emacs, and
JL> communicator.
There are such packages for communicator and navigator. See
http://master.debian.org/~doogie/netscap
I really like the how-to-install-gnome page. Other packages that could
use similar pages are X, emacs, and communicator. I and people I have
talked to can get confused trying to decide which packages to download
and install.
--
John Lapeyre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Tucson,AZ
On Wed, 19 May 1999, Oleg Krivosheev wrote:
>
> Hi, all
>
> looking into GNOME i got some (maybe stupid) idea:
>
> what about creating empty packages only to satisfy dependancies and
> be able to install loosy related set of packages. Metapackage
> seems to be the right name for such creature ;
>> "ADC" == Adam Di Carlo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
ADC> I suggest we all follow naming conventions, i.e., 'metapkg-*', so
ADC> that it's easy to pick these babies out.
I will do the packages for the GNOME update tomorrow, as I want to
have it ready at monday at the latest.
I was thinking ab
Josip Rodin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > what about creating empty packages only to satisfy dependancies and
> > be able to install loosy related set of packages. Metapackage
> > seems to be the right name for such creature ;)
> People already thought of that :) it was discussed on -gtk-gnome
On Wed, May 19, 1999 at 04:40:14PM -0500, Oleg Krivosheev wrote:
> looking into GNOME i got some (maybe stupid) idea:
>
> what about creating empty packages only to satisfy dependancies and
> be able to install loosy related set of packages. Metapackage
> seems to be the right name for such creatu
Hi, all
looking into GNOME i got some (maybe stupid) idea:
what about creating empty packages only to satisfy dependancies and
be able to install loosy related set of packages. Metapackage
seems to be the right name for such creature ;)
for example wmaker_gnome.deb will depends on full GNOME+wm
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