Le Wed, May 19, 2010 at 03:53:18PM +0200, Andreas Tille a écrit : > > I would like to mention that even "unpure" Blends can work with the > metapackages builded in a Pure Blend: If the a package is not part > of official Debian the mentioned dependencies are added as Suggests > and afterwards installed via > > apt-get -o APT::Install-Suggests=true install foo > > if backports is included in sources.list. I would consider this as > a reasonable way to make use of backports in a (not so pure) Blends > concept.
Hi Andreas and everybody, one of the problems of the above strategy is that it does not work with aptitude, which will even remove the suggested package installed by apt-get. Also, once one starts to use APT::Install-Suggests=true, it means that he can not use ‘apt-get autoremove’ for its normal intended use, which is to deinstall the packages that are not needed anymore on the system after an upgrade. I am very interested by the idea of using a Debian stable system complemented by backports, but I think that it will need another strategy, for instance having the blends packages backported themselves, with versionned dependancies on other backported packages. This will of course work only with packages that are maintained by the same persons as the blend themselves, and if uncoordinated backports are not possible. That makes too many ‘if’s, so probably that strategy is not so viable either. Perhaps it would be good to enquire in advance on [email protected] what will be the policy for backports.debian.org ? Have a nice day, -- Charles Plessy Debian Med packaging team Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
