[1296] in athena10
Re: the debathena-managed metapackage
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Tim Abbott)
Thu Mar 5 17:27:01 2009
Date: Thu, 5 Mar 2009 17:25:55 -0500 (EST)
From: Tim Abbott <tabbott@MIT.EDU>
To: Greg Price <price@mit.edu>
cc: Jonathan Reed <jdreed@mit.edu>, debathena@mit.edu
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On Thu, 5 Mar 2009, 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 think it would be desireable for -cluster machines to not differ
from -managed machines in a user-visible way other than the login snapshot
behavior.
> This is basically reasonable. I think this and the long list of
> dependencies it would include point out some issues that we should
> think about:
>
> - cluster-login-config, among other changes, enables a user to log
> out someone who's left the screensaver going for a while. Many of
> the users who want -managed, the ones setting up local public
> machines, may want this.
Yeah, we should probably split that out.
> - 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.
Quite possibly. I don't particularly like what these packages do; we may
want to remove these attachandrun scripts once command_not_found support
is working. But they should probably be in -workstation if we have them
in -cluster.
> - -build-depends really should be in -extra-software.
Seems reasonable.
> If we made all of these changes, then debathena-managed would become
>
> Depends: debathena-workstation, debathena-extra-software,
> debathena-auto-update, debathena-clusterinfo, debathena-tmp-cleaner
That certainly sounds like the software one might expect on -managed.
Probably also debathena-third-party, once that is installable?
-Tim Abbott
