Le 13 déc. 07 à 17:20, Felipe Sateler a écrit :
Thibaut Paumard wrote:
Hello,
I'm packaging an interpreted language, Yorick, and a bunch of add-ons
for that language.
I'd like to provide a wrapper package that would depend on all the
packages in this family present in main and suggest the one that is
[...]
I'd say that in general, it is not such a good idea to make a
metapackage
for packages from different sources, because it means all the
problems you
listed.
In this case: why would you want to install *everything* yorick-
related?
Because Yorick is an interpreter, you just use it like a shell. More
packages installed means more functionalities are installed. There a
some packages that very few people are likely to use, but others
should almost always be installed (like jpeg and png i/o, so those
should go in yorick's Recommends anyway) and I would strongly suggest
to install most on any system that is not very tight on disk space
(as soon as you install yorick, that is ;-)
After all, users wouldn't want most of it, and developers can
install what
they need to do their development (you don't see a C++-dev-all
package that
depends on all c++ libraries ;).
That would be much bigger, and almost every Yorick user _is_ a
developer in a way.
Regards, Thibaut.
