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Re: Ubuntu-Athena
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Greg Hudson)
Thu Jan 3 14:31:26 2008
From: Greg Hudson <ghudson@MIT.EDU>
To: Alex T Prengel <alexp@mit.edu>
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On Wed, 2008-01-02 at 19:19 -0500, Alex T Prengel wrote:
> I don't know if that makes it relatively easy to include them in
> the release or not but I suspect that it may.
Yes; all we will have to do is create (or add to) a metapackage which
lists these as dependencies. The better package repository is one of
the big advantages of Ubuntu or Debian over RPM-based distributions.
> Off the top of my head, this includes things like atlas, blas, lapack,
> boost, gsl, gmp, fftw, itpp, qhull, cln, lpsolve, glpk, ginac,
> wxwidgets, cairo, glitz, mono, clisp, gfortran, vtk, cmake, ant.
I will try to remember to consult this list later on the in the process.
> It would also be very helpful to have vlc, mplayer and/or xine, with as many
> non-proprietary codecs as are available. As I had mentioned a while back,
> getting media players installed outside the release is pretty painful
> due to all the dependencies.
This is most likely possible but I haven't fully investigated it. The
user story for viewing media content is pretty good in stock Ubuntu,
even for proprietary codecs.
> I don't know if it's already been looked into, but accelerated graphics drivers
> from NVIDIA/ATI would be nice if feasible.
Again, the user story for stock Ubuntu is pretty good here, but I
haven't fully investigated what it will take to put these in the
release.
> I believe you're planning to include Open Office in the release- does
> that include acroread as well?
My theory was that modern native PDF tools are good enough that acroread
can live in a locker and be kind of slow, since people should only need
to use it in special cases. There's no native acroread package.
