[789] in athena10
Re: debathena-thirdparty
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Geoffrey Thomas)
Thu Jan 8 11:56:34 2009
Date: Thu, 8 Jan 2009 11:55:35 -0500 (EST)
From: Geoffrey Thomas <geofft@MIT.EDU>
To: "andrew m. boardman" <amb@mit.edu>
cc: wikithena <athena10@mit.edu>
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Is this going to be orthogonal to debathena-extra-software?
Did you want discussion of the packages themselves too? I would start
throwing out requests (like vim-full, since /usr/bin/vim -> -> vim-tiny
overrides /mit/sipb/bin/vim) but it might be too much for a mailing list.
--
Geoffrey Thomas
geofft@mit.edu
On Thu, 8 Jan 2009, andrew m. boardman wrote:
>
> Per previous discussion, we're going to be promoting ubuntu-standard
> versions for what's currently a bunch of third party locker software.
> Thus I propose creating the following metapackages, basically following
> Alex Prengel's plan, with the first depending on the rest:
>
> thirdparty
> thirdparty-accessories
> thirdparty-audio
> thirdparty-communication
> thirdparty-graphics
> thirdparty-information
> thirdparty-languages
> thirdparty-libraries
> thirdparty-numerical
> thirdparty-programming
> thirdparty-simulation
> thirdparty-sound
> thirdparty-text
> thirdparty-utilities
>
> ...and the rest of the dependencies being populated per
> ~~alexp/athena10/thirdpartysw, the format of which is:
> <category>, <overall software name>, <Ubuntu package name>, <comment>
>
> See also thirdparty-int in the same directory, which is more of the same
> except that the two packages named require user input during install to
> work properly. The cluster installer needs to deal with them
> noninteractively.
>
> Alex: please move xmcd from -int to the regular listing; it does have a
> user dialog when installed interactively, but if it's installed
> noninteractively (which is to say, with DEBIAN_PRIORITY=critical or
> DEBIAN_FRONTEND=noninteractive set), it uses the completely reasonably
> default of /dev/cdrom for the CD device. On the other hand, dealing with
> eagle will be annoying; it's trivial to suppress the license dialog, but
> the subsequent user experience is bad until a license key is generated
> for it. I'm assuming we don't have a license and setting it up to run as
> unkeyed freeware is the right answer.
>
> Any thoughts/objections/commentary?
>
