metapackages

[Janusz S. Bień]

On Thu, 10 Apr 2003  "Marcus Moeller" <m.moeller@fh-meschede.de> wrote:


[...]

> Have you ever tried miniwoody. I have added hardware autodetection during
> setup.
> 
>  berliOS:
> http://developer.berlios.de/projects/miniwoody/
> 
> Download Mirror:
> ftp://ftp.lazzurs.net/

No, I will try it in next week. Where should I report possible
problems, if they occur?

> 
> I personally don´t like the way of using live-cd´s to setup a system.
> Actually there is even no good installer available for things like that.
> knxhdinstall is not very usefull.

I forgot to mention that I need a live CD anyway, so Knoppix seems a
good starting point.


[...]

> A meta package is a package that depends on other packages but does nothi=
ng
> itself.

I was confused by the fact that aptitude calls them virtual packages.

Regards

Janusz

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dr hab. Janusz S. Bien, prof. UW
Prof. Janusz S. Bien, Warsaw Uniwersity
http://www.orient.uw.edu.pl/~jsbien/