[1448] in athena10
extra-software
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Evan Broder)
Mon Mar 9 17:48:35 2009
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Date: Mon, 09 Mar 2009 17:48:03 -0400
From: Evan Broder <broder@MIT.EDU>
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Lots of e-mail today!
I'd like to change all of the dependencies in debathena-extra-software
and debathena-extra-software-nox to recommendations.
This should continue to result in all of the packages being installed on
cluster machines, since aptitude takes recommendations by default, but
gives users the option of excluding large (or maybe not so large)
dependencies that they don't want - say, for example, texlive-full.
The only downside I see to this is support - having -extra-software
installed no longer provides a solid guarantee that the packages it
pulls in are installed, although it remains very likely. It seems that
using athinfo packages can work around this relatively well, but I
wanted to check in with the list and see what people (primarily Jon)
thought.
I'd kind of like to do this before I add kde-base to -extra-software,
which I'd like to do soon.
- Evan
