IRC discussion summary about using debtags to replace tasksel for CDDs

[Otavio Salvador]

Enrico Zini <enrico at enricozini.org> writes:

> Then there's the problem of apt hooks.  Currently one can't do apt hooks
> (I just posted about this yesterday, although I only managed to get the
> mail to arrive in deity list:
> http://lists.debian.org/deity/2006/03/msg00006.html).

I saw your message and looks good to me ...

> Interesting idea, potentially trivial to implement, but it seems to be
> fairly hard to convince all the various package managers to do all
> together the same thing.

So now, the real problem, is to get APT supporting what you need
(update.d hooks) and then all the rest is trivial to implement?

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