Hi, Kevin: El Jueves, 13 Octubre 2005 09:03, Kevin Mark escribió: [...]
> Hi Thijs and fellow DDs, > something just sprang into my brain as you mentioned the 'm$ office > thingy'. gnome is a meta-package and someone wondered how he could > install 'his' gnome. here is a scenerio: > > apt-get install gnome > (gnome installs as usuall, but creates a configuration file--blank at > first?) > > dpkg-reconfigure gnome > (this presents a debconf-like screen that displays the basic gnome > packages and also displays optional gnome packages with select/unselect > boxes. after the optional packages are selected, the choices are noted > in a configuration file, and the unselected apps would than be > a)marked for removal in the status file so that the next upgrade cycle > would remove them > or > b)removed by 'apt-get remove' > not sure if I need "a AND b" or "a OR b". > > apt-get install gnome > (now the apt front-end would read the meta-package configuration file to > determine what to install/upgrade. Thus you get to have 'your' gnome and > upgradeing gnome would only install what you want thus saving time and > effort) Yeah! It remmembers quite a lot the localepurge package behaviour. When you install it it asks you if you want to be informed about new locales and when new locales do appear a menu gives you the chance to check in which man/info/etc pages do you want installed in your system. Something like this could go for metapackages: apt-get install gnome (...) [debconf menu] Gnome is a metapackage made up of these bunch of packages. Choose the ones your really want (with all packages starting as checked; maybe submenus for different categories and these submenus depending on the debconf "chatting" level chosen -critical, high, low...). Then the first poster would check-out all gnome-games, then [ok] Do you want to be informed about new [Gnome] packages added [Yes/no]. This way, when on next release new Gnome is made out of new packages, he will have again the choice to tell which ones he wants. -- SALUD, Jesús