On Sat, May 24, 2008 at 1:18 AM, Stephen Hahn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> 8. "Group packages", "incorporations". Group packages and
> incorporations aren't different in terms of the mechanism; it's
> more that these types of packages are interesting for trying to
> assemble larger chunks of software and seem to be worth
> distinguishing. I think Mike's point in 2.4.2--that developer
> bundles should be group packages that pull together a set of
> packages larger than needed for that component's use on a
> non-development system--is a good means of giving two angles into
> the namespace.
I think groups/clusters are very important. And neither the current
groups or incorporations - at least as I understand them - are
quite what I'm after.
One reason for having clusters as first class entities is that the
number of manaeable entities needs to be kept down. It's crazy
to try and manage thousands of packages, while managing a
handful of clusters may be much easier.
But anyway, a couple of examples:
I want to be able to say, both in a jumpstart profile or a subsequent
software management operation, things like
install gnome
excluding the games
except I do want tetris
And the second is that I really want to be able to say
install webstack
in the knowledge that
uninstall webstack
will clear everything up, so that I know it's all gone. Oh, and that any
dependencies that were pulled in just for that also get removed.
(This is actually quite tricky. It probably means that you need to
work quite hard at differentiating packages that are installed for
a purpose and those that accidentally find their way onto a system
merely to satisfy a dependency.)
--
-Peter Tribble
http://www.petertribble.co.uk/ - http://ptribble.blogspot.com/
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