-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 19-05-2005 23:04, Sergio Talens-Oliag wrote: > El Thu, May 19, 2005 at 06:03:18PM +0200, C. Gatzemeier va escriure: > >>Hello, >> >>Sergio Talens-Oliag wrote: >> >> >>>>> I've read all your mail and I don't see why it has to be based on >>>>>debtags. I see the interest on debtags as a simple and powerful way to >>>>>categorize packages, but what is the advantage of using debtags instead >>>>>of the description file I've proposed? >> >>AFAIK I know for example no sure way in debian to have all the relevant >>localized packages automaticly included at the moment. Special language >>package lists may not (and probably shouldn't) contain localization packages >>for packages not in the cdd scope (but included in debian and subsequently >>installed) or simply be be outdated. Resulting in users installing software >>and being left with non-localized software. >> >>Dependency declaration based on tags may change that. Apt (or a more >>appropriate layer) may narrow down or widen the selection based on language >>tags as desired (configured elsewhere), and the dependecies could still be >>checked and fulfilled based upon a debtag query defined in the control files. > > > Yes, a good way of doing that in Debian would be great, it can be done on > a CDD, but a general system would be better in general. > > In fact I've always thought that having a way to do this in way that allows > developers to split a package separating the binary dependant files from the > data would be great. > > Such a system could be used to reduce the archive size (all shared data is > only stored once for each package) and also would allow to update data > without the need to recompile the package (that could be great to update > translations, replace images for branding on Dervied distributions, etc.).
It seems to me that Gatzemeier and I are talking about the same, but possibly you are not discussing same thing, Sergio (how do you mean this could save data? Debian already separate l12n into separate packages): Today, if you want a desktop with daish l12n you need some or all of the following packages: idanish wdanish miscfiles mozilla-firefox-locale-da-dk kde-i18n-da koffice-i18n-da openoffice.org-hyphenation-da mozilla-locale-da myspell-dictionary-da aspell-da gcompris-sound-da debconf-i18n icu-locales gimpprint-locales util-linux-locales locales liblocale-gettext-perl pennmush-i18n bibletime-i18n libi18n-java libqt3-i18n wxwin2.4-i18n sylpheed-i18n akregator-i18n k3b-i18n kile-i18n xcalendar-i18n The above list was gathered by searching for 'danish', '-da', '-dk', 'i18n', 'l12n' and 'locale' - and then judging each result manually be reading the long description. I don't want all those files hardcoded to a single metagroup. I want each of them pulled in whenever I need them - that is if I say I want "danish", "kde" and "system tools" I want international support for the K3B CD-burner software even if it is only suggested by k3b itself. >>> - How would you make one of your tasks conflict with a package? Using Tag-Conflicts: The current skolelinux release bets on KDE. Such choice could ideally be expressed as the following (deliberately oversimplified): Tag-Depends: suite::kde Tag-Recommends: use::learning Tag-Conflicts: suite::gnome The reason for recommending use::learning instead of depending is to allow dropping gnome-related learning tools. >>> - How are you going to distribute the pre-seedings and the scripts used >>>to configure and update your customizations? Imagine a Debian package "tweaks" with a big bunch of pre-seeding answers and idempotent (read: cfengine) scripts - a little like autoconf-archive but organized in OWL classes shared with debtags and FAI. Then imagine your cddtk package enhanced, so that tagging not only is applied to what packages are included, but also what tweaks should be applied before (pre-seeding) and after (cfengine) installation. So, from the special "CDD control-file" in the CDD source (which possibly also contains custom logo and artwork, local sources.list referencing unofficial packages, local tweaks and a local debtags override-file), cddtk generates a CDD metapackage: a plain vanilla control-file with package package dependencies, all relevant tweaks copied from the tweaks package, and pre- and postinst scripts to properly apply the tweaks (and reapply them each time any package is messed with!). - -- * Jonas Smedegaard - idealist og Internet-arkitekt * Tlf.: +45 40843136 Website: http://dr.jones.dk/ - Enden er nÃr: http://www.shibumi.org/eoti.htm -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFCjedTn7DbMsAkQLgRAl9fAKCnL4eCuIT73CRx4db7xIRIIZI5zQCcCMwi PyuRkyu0+1OWbl7JguMQZrQ= =TdOC -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
