On Tue, 4 Sep 2007, Steffen Moeller wrote: >> clusters on DebTags technology. You certainly want to know _exactly_ >> what is installed on your cluster and do not really want it to be changed >> by any change in the DebTags database. I think for this purpose the >> meta package approach is the better way to go. > > The debtags would be used as constraints: "I would allow the requested > installation of program X if there is a facet f such that f(X) is stated in > debtags and f is among a set of facets that characterise my cluster because I > say so. > > You would _not_ use debtags to install every X with f(X) in debtags for some f > in F.
Hmmm, so I could undermine your cluster installation via removing or changing some DebTags of packages you want to install? I can not see the rationale behind it. > Hm. But you saw from Benjamin's reply that he found it not natural to have 3D > structures a separate facet, and I do not think we should spend much time on > such easy decisions: of course we need that, but how could Benjamin know? Well, I don't know either why we really _need_ this. It might be of some use perhaps but I fail to see an urgent need. > I am in favour of some decentral managing. The technology may be there to have > a shared maintainance but it would be less efficient and probably > consequently also less fun. I'm personally very hesitant about any decentral thing because there is always a danger that people who might care for this in the beginning will find some new field of interest and we become dependant from some decentral thing that requires extra maintainance. > We could have something like: categories with more than 5 entries get into the > main debtags distribution ... or something alike. Well, probably we could convince DebTags people by just naming the 5+x entries that a catagorie makes sense without having an extra repository. Kind regards Andreas. -- http://fam-tille.de _______________________________________________ Debtags-devel mailing list Debtags-devel@lists.alioth.debian.org http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/debtags-devel