[med-svn] r13214 - trunk/community/papers/13_healthcafe

[Andreas Tille]

Author: tille
Date: 2013-03-22 09:35:45 +0000 (Fri, 22 Mar 2013)
New Revision: 13214

Modified:
   trunk/community/papers/13_healthcafe/paper-text.tex
Log:
Another rewrite triggered by the correction provided by Jenny Laverde


Modified: trunk/community/papers/13_healthcafe/paper-text.tex
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--- trunk/community/papers/13_healthcafe/paper-text.tex	2013-03-21 21:10:37 UTC (rev 13213)
+++ trunk/community/papers/13_healthcafe/paper-text.tex	2013-03-22 09:35:45 UTC (rev 13214)
@@ -55,12 +55,18 @@
 
 \DebianMed to a certain extend serves as a missing link between the
 developers of Free Software medical applications (in Debian slang
-`upstream') and the end users who install them.  The project's efforts
-significantly ease the task of software installation on a user's system
-by creating 'metapackages', or names in the Debian software packaging
-system which denote collections of software that are commonly used
-together to accomplish a given sort of task---medical tasks, in this
-case.  We attend to security problems and bugfixes and quite frequently
+`upstream') and the end users who install them.  
+The project significantly eases the effort of software installation on a
+system by using so called 'metapackages'.  Metapackages are making use
+of an important feature of the Debian packaging system to define
+relations between packages (containig software that depends from each
+other).  So a metapackage does not actually contain some software the
+user will run but it rather defines dependencies from other software.
+Metapackages assembled by the \DebianMed team denote collections of
+software that are commonly used together to accomplish a given sort of
+task---medical tasks, in this case.
+
+In addition \DebianMed attends to security problems and bugfixes and quite frequently
 we support upstream developers with patches to enhance their software.
 Because of this we have established rather good connections with the
 authors of the software in our area and encourage the formation of a