Re: How to create a metapackage

2015-05-27 Thread Andreas Tille
Hi, On Thu, May 21, 2015 at 11:34:48PM +0200, Santiago Vila wrote: On Wed, May 20, 2015 at 10:34:05PM +0200, Andreas Tille wrote: There are several discussions on Debian mailing lists all with the conclusion that Depends are wrong for metapackages. Please use Recommends. Well, the very

Re: How to create a metapackage

2015-05-25 Thread Peter Pentchev
On Fri, May 22, 2015 at 01:25:39PM +0800, Paul Wise wrote: On Fri, May 22, 2015 at 5:34 AM, Santiago Vila wrote: i.e. tell apt-get to ignore recommends. In this case a metapackage using recommends does not seem very useful, I guess. apt-get --install-recommends --install-suggests

Re: How to create a metapackage

2015-05-22 Thread Santiago Vila
On Fri, May 22, 2015 at 01:25:39PM +0800, Paul Wise wrote: On Fri, May 22, 2015 at 5:34 AM, Santiago Vila wrote: i.e. tell apt-get to ignore recommends. In this case a metapackage using recommends does not seem very useful, I guess. apt-get --install-recommends --install-suggests

Re: How to create a metapackage

2015-05-21 Thread Santiago Vila
On Wed, May 20, 2015 at 10:34:05PM +0200, Andreas Tille wrote: On Wed, May 13, 2015 at 03:29:47PM +0200, humbert.olivie...@free.fr wrote: I guess that they should be either Recommends, or Suggests, but not Depends, right? (So that one can deinstall a single package without deleting

Re: How to create a metapackage

2015-05-21 Thread Paul Wise
On Fri, May 22, 2015 at 5:34 AM, Santiago Vila wrote: i.e. tell apt-get to ignore recommends. In this case a metapackage using recommends does not seem very useful, I guess. apt-get --install-recommends --install-suggests install metapackage -- bye, pabs https://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise

Re: How to create a metapackage

2015-05-20 Thread humbert . olivier . 1
I'd say the packages you want to pull with your metapackage need to be in Depends. There are several discussions on Debian mailing lists all with the conclusion that Depends are wrong for metapackages. Please use Recommends. Good to know. Thanks Andreas. Have you got any pointers for these

Re: How to create a metapackage

2015-05-20 Thread Andreas Tille
Hi, On Wed, May 20, 2015 at 10:36:39PM +0200, humbert.olivie...@free.fr wrote: I'd say the packages you want to pull with your metapackage need to be in Depends. There are several discussions on Debian mailing lists all with the conclusion that Depends are wrong for metapackages. Please

Re: How to create a metapackage

2015-05-20 Thread Andreas Tille
On Wed, May 13, 2015 at 03:29:47PM +0200, humbert.olivie...@free.fr wrote: I guess that they should be either Recommends, or Suggests, but not Depends, right? (So that one can deinstall a single package without deleting all others) I'd say the packages you want to pull with your

How to create a metapackage

2015-05-13 Thread Ole Streicher
Hi, I want to create two metapackages python-astropy-all and python3-astropy-all which install astropy and all affiliated packages. However, I could not find a good tutorial for this: * Should it be native or not? It looks like usually metapackages are native; however in my case the package

Re: How to create a metapackage

2015-05-13 Thread humbert . olivier . 1
Hi, I'll tell you how I do mines but keep in mind that I'm not a debian developpers. I may learn things as well if some debian developpers would answer. De: Ole Streicher * Should it be native or not? I'd say native as you will not ship any upstream source code within it. Will you ? *