[Pkg-ltsp-devel] Bug#480661: ltsp-server: ltsp "compiler" should not depend on daemons

[Jonas Smedegaard]

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On Sun, May 11, 2008 at 03:01:53PM -0700, Vagrant Cascadian wrote:
>On Sun, May 11, 2008 at 02:52:08PM +0200, Jonas Smedegaard wrote:
>> I believe that either tftp server should be a dependency only of 
>> -standalone (and the tools deal properly with it potentially missing 
>> if they don't already) or that the chroot "compiler" should be 
>> packaged in a separate "ltsp-server-core" or "ltsp-builder" package 
>> that ltsp-server depends on.
>
>i've definitely pushed for a separate package in the past, although at 
>this point i'll look into lowering *tftpd* to recommends for 
>ltsp-server, and making it a dependency for ltsp-server-standalone.

Better than current, but why?

I'd like to install "compilers" without such hosts becoming "servers".  
That becomes tricky with your approach.

What is the logic behind the current package split?  Why don't you like 
the separate package approach anymore?


>openssh-client, *inetd*, and iproute also maybe would fall into this 
>category.

Indeed - I just reacted on the first of them that I noticed :-)


  - Jonas

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