[pkg-fso-maint] [Debian] Device-agnostic fso-frameworkd: ready to go!

[Luca Capello]

Hi Enrico!

On Thu, 30 Oct 2008 21:24:48 +0100, Enrico Zini wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 30, 2008 at 07:56:44PM +0100, Luca Capello wrote:
>
>> I have never considered that and I should say that this is a simple and
>> feasible option.  However, while I like it, it rises some concerns:
>> 1) which fso-config-* package should be the default?  IIRC merely
>>    depending on the virtual package means that at installation time
>>    apt-get/aptitude/$WHATEVER chooses the first random package that
>>    provides the virtual one.  IMHO this is even worse than the current
>>    situation :-(
>
> A "freerunner" metapackage comes to my mind, to pull in the required
> hardware-specific dependencies.

This seems to me very likely the same situation Bastian exposed at [1].

OTOH, I do not like at all metapackages and in our specific situation I
think we already have, by chance, the solution, as I explained at [2],
(first paragraph after point 2).  Let me explain it here and in better
words.

What will a "freerunner" metapackage do?  Simply, it will depend on
fso-config-gta02 (the device-specific package), on fso-frameworkd and
one fso-sounds-* package [3].  Since fso-config-gta02 is not
frameworkd-specific [4], by chance this package acts like the
"freerunner" metapackage.  Please correct me if I'm wrong :-)

Thx, bye,
Gismo / Luca

Footnotes: 
[1] http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2008/10/msg00873.html
[2] http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/pkg-fso-maint/2008-October/000263.html
[3] http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/pkg-fso-maint/2008-October/000251.html
[4] it should depend (or at least recommend) on everything the *basic*
    Debian installation on FR should have, e.g. since we want an X11
    server, it should "Depends: xserver-xglamo | xserver-xorg"
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