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Re: Is it time to abandon Dpkg?

'Andreas Jellinghaus wrote:'
>
>> Well, if nobody else is willing to step up to the plate, I'm willing
>> to start an experimental dpkg 2.0 project.  I probably can't do it
>> alone, but if others are willing to contribute suggestions and
>> (gasp!) perhaps even code, we might be able to turn out something
>> beta-testable before 1.3 is out.
>
>that's very good. (btw: is there a mailing list for dpkg/dselect ? use
>the admintool mailing list ?).

Please let's discuss it hear.

>b) split dselect "select" into one method for installing, one for
>installing additional packages after first installation and one expert
>mode. 

Yes, the current version of dselect has a nice expert mode (well,
there are things to be improved there too, of course).  It's main
problem is some less intense installation options.  That's what my
menu is trying to do.

>c) create meta packages (why don't  gcc, binutils etc in one step. it's
>not useful in most cases, to install only one of them.

This is not the cureall that I and others originally thought.  In a
previous post I listed the selectmenu.cfg that I'm working on.  It
allows one to add menu items that would serve as "meta packages"
without having the meta package burried amid the listing of all 800
available packages (see meta packages per se don't help any).

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