1) Debian packages are not supposed to edit the configuration
of other packages.
2) apt-get provides /etc/apt/sources.list.d/
I am correct to assume that if a Debian packages needs to
modify sources.list (indirectly) it should drop a .conf file
into /etc/apt/sources.list.d/ ?
If so we could
- provide a meta package r-cran-repository which
- installs /etc/apt/sources.list.d/r-cran-repository.conf
- post-install runs "apt-get update" ?
- Suggests: a few main packages in r-cran-repository
- that way "apt-get --install-suggests install
r-cran-repository" acts like an "R-CRAN task"
- Does that even work with already-installed packages ?
- if not we'd want/need an r-cran-most-common.deb Depends:
r-cran-repository
- Lists: all (?) packages in r-cran-repository
- that way "apt-cache search some-r-cran-package" would find
r-cran-repository and/or r-cran-most-common
I'm sure there's flaws in this scheme. Please find them.
Karsten
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