El Lunes 12 Febrero 2007 23:49, Damián Viano escribió: > On Sun, Feb 11, 2007 at 08:37:46PM +0100, 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. > > I think a tasksel task would also be very reasonable approach here, > and, maybe be easier to maintain than a meta-package? > > It would also be nice since is quite a specific task and one would be > prompted during d-i which would pretty much make Debian science-ready > out of the box.
Complicated to do? I _never_ did something related to debian packages, but perhaps it's a good time to start :-) Regards, Lisandro. -- FAQ del pequeño tomi: P- ¿Porque los programas necesitan tanta RAM hoy? R- Porque los que programamos somos todos unos subnormales que no sabemos optimizar nada y nos gusta tener todo en RAM y hacer mmap a cualquier archivo que queramos acceder en vez de hacerlo como dios manda (mmap: funcion que mapea un archivo en memoria, no usar) Textual de Martín "El Ruso" Ribelotta Lisandro Damián Nicanor Pérez Meyer http://perezmeyer.com.ar/ https://perezmeyer.com.ar/ si es un desafortunado usuario de Speedy
