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| From | Greg Wooledge <greg@wooledge.org> |
|---|---|
| Newsgroups | linux.debian.user |
| Subject | Re: Metapackaging |
| Date | 2024-08-18 18:40 +0200 |
| Message-ID | <JcR6F-5UtW-7@gated-at.bofh.it> (permalink) |
| References | <JbQml-5gJ4-1@gated-at.bofh.it> <JcQDD-5Ukh-1@gated-at.bofh.it> |
| Organization | linux.* mail to news gateway |
On Sun, Aug 18, 2024 at 17:08:00 +0100, Jonathan Dowland wrote: > I've long felt that they were overcomplicated in themselves: the > ideal UX should be not much more than "equivs package-name" => > ./package-name.deb generated, IMHO. I once had ambitions to add > that UX (either as a patch to equivs, or as a separate equivs-ng) > but I never got around to it. That may be acceptable for packages that don't have any Depends: or Provides: lines or what-have-you. In general, people may be using equivs for a variety of reasons -- for example, a custom local package that depends on all of the packages needed for a specific server installation.
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