[2029] in athena10
Re: [Debathena] #131: dvips uses a4 paper
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jonathan Reed)
Fri Apr 3 19:32:19 2009
Date: Fri, 3 Apr 2009 19:32:00 -0400 (EDT)
From: Jonathan Reed <jdreed@MIT.EDU>
To: Evan Broder <broder@mit.edu>
cc: Debathena Trac <debathena@mit.edu>, jhawk@mit.edu, geofft@mit.edu
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On Fri, 3 Apr 2009, Evan Broder wrote:
> Jonathan Reed wrote:
>> There seems to be some thought that the -clients metapackage contains
>> some sort of implied "Touch my machine as little as possible" contract
>> with its users. If that's the intention of the developers, we should
>> document that or something.
>
> Like I said on zephyr, and like I don't feel like more than summarizing
> here, I think we're at a point that we need to fundamentally sit down
> and think about how package selection and metapackages work on Debathena.
Agreed.
> That being said, if we continue to try and stretch the current model, I
> think it would be potentially reasonable for -clients to not touch your
> system, and have -standard divert and configure stuff. We'd want to move
> a few other packages (i.e. -printing-config) into -standard if we do that.
That sounds perfectly reasonable to me, and brings things in like with
-standard being the "base" model for support (anything "lower" than that,
and we'll still help you, but you get to keep both pieces)
-Jon
