[790] in athena10
Re: debathena-thirdparty
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (andrew m. boardman)
Thu Jan 8 12:18:51 2009
Message-Id: <200901081717.n08HHsef003583@pothole.mit.edu>
To: Geoffrey Thomas <geofft@MIT.EDU>
cc: "andrew m. boardman" <amb@MIT.EDU>, wikithena <athena10@MIT.EDU>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 08 Jan 2009 11:55:35 EST."
<alpine.DEB.2.00.0901081152220.29838@vinegar-pot.mit.edu>
Date: Thu, 08 Jan 2009 12:17:54 -0500
From: "andrew m. boardman" <amb@MIT.EDU>
> Is this going to be orthogonal to debathena-extra-software?
Not really orthogonal to it, more like a heavyweight extension of it.
Cluster machines are going to get all of -workstation, -extra-software,
and -thirdparty. (I don't think there's a good technical reason to have
-thirdparty actually depend on -extra-software, but that's the general
idea.) The subpackages are there for solely for the convenience of
non-cluster users who may want a subset but not the whole thing.
> Did you want discussion of the packages themselves too?
Technical problems with the list, definitely. (I'd be curious to hear
more about the nfs-common requirement myself.) For additions and
deletions, while I'm interested and this list is definitely the right
place for the discussion, the buck stops with alexp.
As for vim-full, why not just add it to -workstation?
