-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 16/10/12 10:45 AM, Jean-Michel Philippe wrote: > It's been a long time we had talked about merging DoudouLinux > packages lists into Debian Jr. I'm sorry I've been very busy for a > while and could not do this until now. However, we are now closer > to move to Squeeze – yes, only Squeeze – so I started to look at > Junior packages lists and saw they aren't arranged as our lists are > arranged. Moreover we have several additional requirements because > we want to provide CD's, ARM builds and later we hope a > multilingual DVD. The full set of packages can then not be > installed on every target, which means we have to find a way to > separate package lists into subsets.
Sounds reasonable. > Right now I have the following ideas in mind, please comment if > you disagree or have better ideas: > > * merge gnome/kde Junior lists into other lists * create *-extra > packages lists * create *-live-* packages lists for our LiveCD * > use Recommends/Suggests for applications we're not using in > DoudouLinux * create *-l10n-* packages to install language-specific > packages > > Please note that the latest proposal would probably introduce > around 30 new packages as of writing. I think they should all > provide a virtual package "junior-l10n" that is recommended by the > main junior task, if this is possible to do that with the blend > tool. This way not all these packages would be installed by the > Junior task. Everything that is acceptable to you, whoever ends up working with you, and of course to the ftpmasters is fine by me. I wanted to convey some of my original vision at the beginning, but now would like to just sit back and watch what you come up with. A lot of the way things were structured originally may not make sense anymore, so consider nothing sacred and everything open to whatever changes make sense to you. Thanks, Ben -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.12 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iEYEARECAAYFAlB972UACgkQWpTzygsnE8gPSgCeOmOOAosORdKX7+o/xpYfIatV EPUAnR9y3AYnHSiZsRxcCiKmc0+eIsdz =YR1V -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
