Re: Hiding library packages from apt searches by default? (was: Re: Worthless node-* package descriptions in ITPs)

2017-01-07 Thread Mike Hommey
On Sat, Jan 07, 2017 at 07:32:12PM +, Riku Voipio wrote: > On Thu, Jan 05, 2017 at 02:32:45PM +0100, Christian Seiler wrote: > > On 01/05/2017 02:06 PM, Jonas Smedegaard wrote: > > > Quoting Riku Voipio (2017-01-05 12:53:16) > > >> Vast majority of users would only install this via

Re: Hiding library packages from apt searches by default? (was: Re: Worthless node-* package descriptions in ITPs)

2017-01-07 Thread Riku Voipio
On Thu, Jan 05, 2017 at 02:32:45PM +0100, Christian Seiler wrote: > On 01/05/2017 02:06 PM, Jonas Smedegaard wrote: > > Quoting Riku Voipio (2017-01-05 12:53:16) > >> Vast majority of users would only install this via dependencies. It's > >> hardly a node-specific problem that debian package

Re: Hiding library packages from apt searches by default? (was: Re: Worthless node-* package descriptions in ITPs)

2017-01-05 Thread Nicholas D Steeves
On Fri, Jan 06, 2017 at 10:01:38AM +0800, Paul Wise wrote: > On Thu, Jan 5, 2017 at 9:32 PM, Christian Seiler wrote: > > > Could we maybe hide library packages from apt searches by default? > > This is going to have unintended consequences; for example, if we base > it on Debian Section fields,

Re: Hiding library packages from apt searches by default? (was: Re: Worthless node-* package descriptions in ITPs)

2017-01-05 Thread Paul Wise
On Thu, Jan 5, 2017 at 9:32 PM, Christian Seiler wrote: > Could we maybe hide library packages from apt searches by default? This is going to have unintended consequences; for example, if we base it on Debian Section fields, library source packages that build a binary package containing tools,

Re: Hiding library packages from apt searches by default? (was: Re: Worthless node-* package descriptions in ITPs)

2017-01-05 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
Quoting Christian Seiler (2017-01-05 14:32:45) > On 01/05/2017 02:06 PM, Jonas Smedegaard wrote: >> Quoting Riku Voipio (2017-01-05 12:53:16) >>> Vast majority of users would only install this via dependencies. >>> It's hardly a node-specific problem that debian package searches >>> output large

Hiding library packages from apt searches by default? (was: Re: Worthless node-* package descriptions in ITPs)

2017-01-05 Thread Christian Seiler
On 01/05/2017 02:06 PM, Jonas Smedegaard wrote: > Quoting Riku Voipio (2017-01-05 12:53:16) >> Vast majority of users would only install this via dependencies. It's >> hardly a node-specific problem that debian package searches output >> large amount of packages that are not useful unless you