Re: "Meta" packages

[jacob helixcode com (Jacob "Ulysses" Berkman)]

Julian Missig <julian linuxpower org> writes:

> Talking with Telsa and Ankh, we came to the conclusion that it would be
> very nice to have meta-packages for gnome 1.4. Smaller libraries could
> be grouped together depending upon how essential they are, and this
> lessens the number of things which need to be installed. I'd simply like
> to bring it up for discussion. Would some kind of script be created to
> help those compiling it all, or what? The basic idea is to optimize the
> packaging and installation so that the downloads a 28.8 user has to make
> aren't too large, and the number of installations a t1 user has to do
> are minimal. I feel this will also help spread the new "essential"
> libraries when the time comes, and it still allows us to only update
> small libraries via helix-update when necessary.

Is this really any different than what Debian has?

I am sort of confused.

Jacob
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