[Freedombox-pkg-team] Bug#847680: plinth: Metapackages for optional plinth modules

[James Valleroy]

On Sat, 10 Dec 2016 10:30:22 -0500 James Valleroy
<jvalleroy at mailbox.org> wrote:
> This is a suggestion to add a number of binary metapackages, one for
> each optional plinth module like plinth-mumble, plinth-quassel, etc.
> 
> Each module metapackage simply Depends on the required packages for that
> module, and in its postinst will run "plinth --setup <modulename>". So
> installing plinth-mumble is equivalent to going to the Mumble page in
> Plinth, and clicking install. These packages shouldn't need to change
> often (only if we decide to add/remove required packages for a module).

Now I'm wondering if these should be named something else, like
task-freedombox-<module>. That would leave the plinth-<module> names
open for #771664, which proposes to actually split up the plinth
package. I think these are 2 distinct ideas and both may be valuable
approaches.

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