[616] in athena10
Re: locker software and 'debathena-cluster-software'
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Greg Price)
Thu Nov 13 00:41:23 2008
Date: Thu, 13 Nov 2008 00:40:32 -0500
From: Greg Price <price@MIT.EDU>
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On Fri, Nov 07, 2008 at 08:25:18PM -0500, Greg Price wrote:
> - rename the package to reflect that intent; someone suggested
> debathena-third-party, or a more apt name might be
> debathena-extra-software;
>
> - for those of us who care about Debathena not on Hardy, we should
> maintain debathena-cluster-software for other distributions;
> e.g. on etch it conflicts with debathena-workstation just now
> over the gaim->pidgin rename;
>
> - those of us who maintain Debathena workstations, say SIPB office
> heads, should install debathena-cluster-software and try to get
> all the general-purpose software we need into that package;
>
> How does this approach sound to everyone else?
I've done part (b) above, so that debathena-cluster-software and
debathena-workstation happily coexist on etch. I've also done (c) on
two of the three Debathena office heads at SIPB, running etch and hardy.
A colleague whom I asked to install 'debathena-cluster-software'
nearly installed 'debathena-cluster' instead, which would have been
quite different. This seems like another reason to do (a), renaming
it to 'debathena-extra-software' or somesuch, if we're going to keep
it congenial for non-cluster machines.
Greg
