[796] in athena10
Re: debathena-thirdparty
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Alex T Prengel)
Thu Jan 8 14:48:10 2009
Message-Id: <200901081947.n08JlJfP029524@dit.mit.edu>
To: "andrew m. boardman" <amb@MIT.EDU>
cc: athena10@MIT.EDU, geofft@MIT.EDU, broder@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 08 Jan 2009 11:39:45 EST."
<200901081639.n08GdjHD002565@pothole.mit.edu>
Date: Thu, 08 Jan 2009 14:47:19 -0500
From: Alex T Prengel <alexp@MIT.EDU>
>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.
Done- I also added one new package that I was just asked to install,
scratchbox2 (a cross-compiling development environment).
/mit/alexp/athena10/thirdpartysw and thirdpartysw-int have been
edited to reflect these changes.
>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.
Yes, that's correct.
Also, what about realplay? It's not a Ubuntu package but users will want it...
geofft wrote:
> Did you want discussion of the packages themselves too?
Requests for additional packages can go to me, if they're in the
Third-Party/application area... I'm hoping we've got most things covered
and that there won't be a huge number as the list is fairly long already.
Also if something is not potentially of interest to a substantial number
of Athena users it would be best for those who want specialized things
to just do a local install. I'm looking mostly to get requests that bear
on teaching and course work, though obviously there is likely to be a
lot of overlap with other uses.
amb asked:
>(I'd be curious to hear more about the nfs-common requirement myself.)
Pro-Engineer won't run unless this is installed. That's really about it.
Alex
