On Tue, Mar 07, 2017 at 04:40:15PM +0000, Ian Jackson wrote: [...] > I would like to shelve this suggestion. The concept of > antimetapackages can certainly be used this way from a technical point > of view, but I think the goal there is controversial. Maintainers of > packages currently in main would probably resist the introduction of > antimetapackage tags. > > Whereas the goal of enabling finer control over nonfree is, I think, > fairly uncontroversial.
I'm not so sure whether this goal is uncontroversial, this is Debian… ;)
> So do you think we should proceed with that ?
Please not like this. while I *might* share the goal, I think this
implementation is IMHO rather horrible. "antimetapackages" sounds unclear at
best and the whole concept is *way* too complicated.
plus, we have something complicated which can achieve the wanted effect today
already: apt pining.
I think Debian has better things to do than working on fine grained control
over non-free stuff. Obviously anybody is free to work on this, but I dont
think we should make our repositories, packages, policies and workflow soooo
much more complicated and harder to understand, for very little gain.
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cheers,
Holger
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