[2111] in athena10
the impact of each metapackage
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jonathan Reed)
Tue Apr 7 21:28:36 2009
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From: Jonathan Reed <jdreed@MIT.EDU>
To: Debathena Trac <debathena@mit.edu>
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Date: Tue, 7 Apr 2009 21:28:06 -0400
At release-team today, we discussed the various metapackages and the
degree to which they should or should not affect the user's machine.
There seems to be a desired for debathena-clients to lean towards the
"make as few decisions for me as possible on my behalf". By the same
token, debathena-workstation (the new one) is more along the lines of
"make as many decisions for me as possible".
Keeping this in mind, we thought about what configuration packages/
diversions should be present in each package. We propose removing
debathena-from-config and debathena-finger-config from -clients and
putting them in -standard instead, thus making debathena-clients more
along the lines of "Don't change things on my machine, only give me
new Athena functionality". We propose that -zephyr-config, -kerberos-
config, -hesiod-config, and -ldap-config stay in -clients, since those
make packages we install more useful.
We ran out of time and didn't consider whether anything else should be
shuffled around between -standard, -login, -graphical-login, and -
workstation, but I suspect there's not too much else we want to move.
What do people think of this? (Other people who were at today's
meeting should feel free to correct this if any of this is wrong/
misleading).
-Jon
