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Re: debathena-thirdparty
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Bill Cattey)
Thu Jan 8 15:58:36 2009
From: Bill Cattey <wdc@MIT.EDU>
To: Tim Abbott <tabbott@mit.edu>
Cc: "andrew m. boardman" <amb@mit.edu>, Geoffrey Thomas <geofft@mit.edu>,
wikithena <athena10@mit.edu>
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Date: Thu, 08 Jan 2009 15:59:18 -0500
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Yes, exactly right.
-Bill
On Thu, 2009-01-08 at 14:53 -0500, Tim Abbott wrote:
> 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
