[1291] in athena10
Re: the debathena-managed metapackage
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Evan Broder)
Thu Mar 5 17:04:57 2009
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Date: Thu, 05 Mar 2009 17:03:48 -0500
From: Evan Broder <broder@MIT.EDU>
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To: Greg Price <price@mit.edu>
CC: Jonathan Reed <jdreed@mit.edu>, debathena@mit.edu
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Greg Price wrote:
> To put this another way, I think this means three packages fewer than
> debathena-cluster:
>
> debathena-cluster-login-config
> debathena-reactivate
> debathena-larvnet
>
Yeah - I thought there were going to be more packages worth pulling when
I started writing the list.
> - Several of the packages pulled in here represent Athena software
> and may belong in -workstation or lower: -transcript-glue,
> -misc-glue, -xlock. I believe the main reason they aren't already
> is that they were written by ghudson and rbasch, who were focussed
> on the cluster release.
>
I feel like this may be re-aligning the purpose of debathena-workstation
from its original intent, but I can't really qualify what I mean by
that, and I think that including those packages may put -workstation
closer to what people installing it think they want.
> - Similarly, -emacs-config, -{ntp|chrony}-config, and -dns-config may
> belong in -locker and thereby in -standard.
>
Whoa - as a heavy debathena-standard user, I definitely don't think any
of those belong in -standard. Maybe -login.
> - -build-depends really should be in -extra-software.
>
Seems fine.
I'm not sure how we can actually make this a sane migration path, but
I'd kind of like the name "debathena-workstation" to become what
"debathena-managed" is currently conceptualized to be, and maybe rename
what is currently debathena-workstation to something more innocuous -
debathena-graphical maybe? I worry that too many people will see
"debathena-workstation" and think, "That's what I want!" just from the
name, without reading the descriptions.
- Evan
