* "Laurent" == Laurent Martelli <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Laurent> Being able to select several packages by selecting a Laurent> metapackage is very nice, but how will uninstallation be Laurent> handled ? Will you be able to uninstall all the packages of a Laurent> metapackage in one step ? * "Stephane" == Stephane Bortzmeyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Stephane> Certainly not: Stephane> - a package can be a member of several meta-packages, Stephane> - a package could have been installed before (and Stephane> independently of) a metapackage which includes it). If I understand Wichert correctly, apt will get a flag indicating if a package was installed on its onw merrits or as a dependancy sometime. Laurent> It would also be nice to be able to select the packages one Laurent> by one, thus providing a new way to hierarchise packages Laurent> without messing with the old directory structure of the Laurent> distributions. Is this planned ? This is not subject to the task packages. For better organisation, there were several proposals, but they were not persueded further although there wasn't much resistance - there wasn't simply anyone who wanted to push it through the decision layers). a) New field which has additional hierarchie information like in Package: xserver-i128 Purpose: x11/hardware, x11/server Package: cthugha Purpose: sound/display, graphic/demo There is a example usage of this available. I also played with it http://www.internet-treff.uni-koeln.de/~martin/debcat/index.html?fl=3&flc29=2#fl_29 The only thing that prevents implementation (IIRC) is that a hierarchie has to be negotiated, and noone stepped forward to lead this efford. b) New field with keywords. Basically the same thing as a), but the disadvantage in my eyes is that you have to see the available keywords to effectivly search on them. Take a DN Server. A user could search on "DNS", "DNS server", "DNS-Server", "bind", "name server" etc. This is the same effect as with search engines, where you never get the hit you really searched for. Ciao, Martin
