On Tue, Dec 02, 2003 at 05:38:15AM +1100, Zenaan Harkness wrote: > * you can't always create a flavour to do what you want
# From a currently installed machine (or chroot)... shell$ dpkg --get-selections > selections shell$ vim selections shell$ mv selections desktop.selections shell$ mailx -s 'my desktop selections' [EMAIL PROTECTED] < \ > desktop.selections # on friend's computer shell$ dpkg --get-selections > my.selections shell$ diff my.selections desktop.selections shell$ sudo dpkg --set-selections < desktop.selections shell$ sudo apt-get dselect-upgrade -u > * improving our mechanisms for supporting "flavours" helps derived > distros and their users I'd be in favor of setting up user's favorite selections lists. Perhaps this would be appropriate for community forum sites, such as DebianPlanet.org? KISS. If the solution isn't simple and elegant, it's probably not ready for prime time. Distributing selection lists via forums, websites and the like is an easy way of creating flavors w/o making structural changes to the Debian project or increasing the package dependency jungle. If you find your "flavor" is quite popular and isn't being sufficiently covered by an existing Debian Subproject, propose a new one. -- Chad Walstrom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.wookimus.net/ assert(expired(knowledge)); /* core dump */
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