[797] in athena10
Re: debathena-thirdparty
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Tim Abbott)
Thu Jan 8 14:54:21 2009
Date: Thu, 8 Jan 2009 14:53:12 -0500 (EST)
From: Tim Abbott <tabbott@MIT.EDU>
To: "andrew m. boardman" <amb@mit.edu>
cc: Geoffrey Thomas <geofft@mit.edu>, wikithena <athena10@mit.edu>
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On Thu, 8 Jan 2009, andrew m. boardman wrote:
>> 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.
So is the distinction between -extra-software and -thirdparty largely a
distinction between things managed by the Athena third party software team
(aka Alex Prengel) and things managed by the Athena release team?
-Tim Abbott
