On Tue, 1 Jan 2008, Andrew Dougherty wrote:
As a result of this, it has been my goal to assemble a comprehensive software ontology of existing systems and package as many of them as possible, ordered in such a way that the new packages can improve the automatic creation of packages.
I startet building Debian packages about 10 years ago and in no single case I had the impression that this process could be done automatically. You might be lucky if you try to package some kind of standardized archives like CTAN or CPAN, but I doubt that this is possible if you are picking random FOSS from the net.
Would there be any interest in a Debian-AI sub-project?
It sounds like you should think about joining the Custom Debian Distribution effort: http://wiki.debian.org/CustomDebian http://people.debian.org/~tille/cdd/ If you are using the CDD tools you could gain some profit for your users by technically grouping set of packages to takss. We have also automatic tools to document what we just have inside official Debian and what is on our todo list like for instance http://debian-med.alioth.debian.org/tasks/bio.php (Please note that the later URL is just a preview of the web tools that are currently developed and once they are bug free there will be an official announcement. It's just to give you an idea of the profit you might have if you are building an official CDD.) Kind regards and good luck for your project Andreas. -- http://fam-tille.de -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]