Sectionning overhaul (Was: Getting rid of section "base" ?)

1999-12-03 Thread Yann Dirson
Note: I followup to deb-dev where this thread is (I think) more appropriate. I think I'll summarize the past events, but that will probably wait till monday. The curious one will find the beginning of the thread in the debian-project archive on www.debian.org - it is refered to from the Debian W

Please throw section "base"

1999-12-03 Thread Yann Dirson
Dear override-file maintainers, As exposed recently in debian-project, and mentionned in the DWN issue dated Nov 39th, the "base" section does not have any reason to be there any more. There were no objections raised against its cancelation. Joey pointed that changing the override file was the

Re: Getting rid of section "base" ?

1999-12-03 Thread Daniel Burrows
On Fri, Dec 03, 1999 at 12:51:37PM +0100, Yann Dirson was heard to say: > > > Daniel Burrows writes: > > > > Secondly and more importantly, the current sectioning system is > holding back > > > > the more advanced interfaces > > > > > > I didn't follow such discussions - can you please g

Re: Getting rid of section "base" ?

1999-12-03 Thread Yann Dirson
Daniel Burrows writes: > > I don't intend to map this into a (file-)hierarchy. Till now I > > thought of 2 approaches: > > > > * Using virtual-packages like "gif-language" and "gif-png-translator", > > and have frontends parse those virtual-package names to, say, provide > > a "png-screen-t

Re: Getting rid of section "base" ?

1999-12-03 Thread Yann Dirson
Goswin Brederlow writes: > I don´t like the > alphabetic sorting. Its hard to find something you don´t know the > exact name of. Hm... often "ls */*pattern*" in lftp was needed and sufficient for me with current section-based layout. I'm not sure how worse would be alphabetic sorting. > An