On Sun, 2007-02-11 at 20:37, Andreas Tille wrote: > On Sun, 11 Feb 2007, Lisandro [iso-8859-1] Damián Nicanor Pérez Meyer wrote: > > > Perhaps a metapackage should be done, best if coordinated through > > this list. > > Well, the meta-package technique is supported easily through cdd-dev > package. Feel free to ask me if ou have trouble implementing > scientific meta packages set. I guess the debian-med package might > be a reasonable example to suppoet all features, especially because > the biological part should be ready. > > > I understand that it would be _too_ difficult due to the quantity of > > science-related packages, but from a begginers point of view, it > > wouldn't be so much a bad idea. > > Well, I think *because* of the quantity we need such a collection > of scientific related software. > > Another very reasonable approach is debtagging the scientific > packages and use the features of debtags to install scientific > packages. >
Using debtags would be very helpfull for GUI and CLI tools. But I havn't seen these tags in the "available" file [/var/lib/dpkg/available]. Maybe this has changed in the new frozen/unstable tree? Kind Regards, Thomas -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
