[1332] in athena10
Re: Metapackage rename
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Greg Price)
Fri Mar 6 18:21:14 2009
Date: Fri, 6 Mar 2009 18:19:12 -0500
From: Greg Price <price@MIT.EDU>
To: Xavid <xavid@mit.edu>
Cc: Jonathan Reed <jdreed@mit.edu>, Anders Kaseorg <andersk@mit.edu>,
Evan Broder <broder@mit.edu>, debathena@mit.edu
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On Fri, Mar 06, 2009 at 05:30:36PM -0500, Xavid wrote:
> I like the idea of something that suggests that it's a foundation,
> like debathena-essential, debathena-core, or debathena-base, personally.
I like -core, which describes the package's purpose pretty well. I
agree with Jon's rationales for all the rest.
To summarize the discussion, that would give us
debathena-standard -> debathena-core
debathena-login -> debathena-login
debathena-workstation -> debathena-login-graphical
(debathena-managed) -> debathena-workstation
The reuse of "debathena-workstation" means some complication, of
course: if we want to assume that someone out there (a) has installed
-workstation, and (b) really did want the -login-graphical
functionality rather than the traditional Athena Private Workstation
functionality that will become -workstation, then we need to do a
Conflicts/Replaces dance that I believe requires leaving up a
transitional set of package builds for as long as we want upgrades to
lead to -login-graphical rather than to the new -workstation.
Greg
