Seeds and Ships (was: sudo timeouts + abiword/gnumeric/planner)

[Matt Zimmerman]

On Thu, Sep 09, 2004 at 02:30:24AM +0200, Alex de Landgraaf wrote:

> On Thu, 2004-09-09 at 09:42 +1000, Jeff Waugh wrote:
> 
> > Hrm, how about backwards: Ship and Live should only include things that
> > exist in Supported. Anything in Ship or Live that is not in Supported should
> > raise an alarm and not be included.
> 
> I thought this was the case, but Matt seems to want to include anything
> in universe. I really don't mind, as long as I get my package lists and
> the package is installable (I'll fudge it, I've been doing so up till
> now anyway :)

It was a bit of a fanciful discussion for the future; let's not allow any of
these issues to distract us from the task at hand.  The Warty Live CD will
be based on the Desktop package set.

> Speaking of which, wouldn't it just be easier to use debtags or something
> similar for generating package lists with facets? I know Enrico went to
> Oxford last month, but haven't heard anything about it being considered.
> Parsing wikis, although a fun hobby, makes me feel...  dirty. Besides,
> debtags rock! </plug>

This is another such discussion.  Let's talk about it after the release. :-)

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 - mdz