RFC: allow output from maintainer scripts

2000-10-23 Thread Anthony Towns
Hello world, After some discussion on the debconf list [0] it appears that policy and current practice are in conflict, and that it's probably a good idea to get this conflict resolved before debconf gets added to policy. The conflict I'm referring to is from s2.3.8, Maintainer Scripts. The firs

Re: Priorities

2000-10-23 Thread Taketoshi Sano
Excellent idea! I'd like to see this improved tasksel program. and, if tasksel can accept some option to switch the topdomain of the name space ("task-" part currently), then it can be used some other meta package in different name space. In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, on Mon, 23 Oct 2000 08:15:07 -0

Re: Priorities

2000-10-23 Thread Arthur Korn
Hi Ben Collins schrieb: > Task packages can define different levels of installation. The > tasksel program will follow these rules for each case: > > - Minimum, installs everything that the task-* package Depends on > - Standard, installs everything in Minimum, plus packag

Re: Priorities

2000-10-23 Thread Ben Collins
> > Now, there are some related problems happening. One big one is the > fact that "Recommends" and "Suggests" have lost their usefulness > since apt-get came on the scene. I venture to suggest that several of > the inappropriate task-* packages exist purely to remedy this. If, > e.g., the Roxe

Re: Priorities

2000-10-23 Thread Richard Braakman
On Wed, Oct 18, 2000 at 01:05:28PM -0700, Chris Waters wrote: > > ~ $ grep-available -P roxen -sPackage|wc -l >70 I think this is a different problem. There's no reason for every little Roxen module to be a separate package. Richard Braakman