metapackages

[Andreas Tille]

Hi Rosea,

[I hope you do not mind if I quote you on a public list but to my
 understanding nothing in the mail is really private.]

For pkg-multimedia list users: Rosea asked on Debian Blends mailing list
about problems using blends-dev and seeing that it is multimedia related
I think it is reasonable to discuss the issues here (and by doing so)
stress the Blends topic a bit more as I did in[1].

On Sat, Oct 30, 2010 at 08:49:52AM +0200, rosea.grammostola wrote:
>> BTW, Could you please be a bit more verbose what you are actually doing
>> (commit your blends source code for further inspection or applying
>> patches)?  I'm specifically asking because we could actually need some
>> help in the multimedia issue.  I'm currently try to push the Blends
>> technique at the Debian Multimedia team (you find the code at
>>
>>    svn://svn.debian.org/svn/blends/projects/multimedia/trunk/debian-multimedia
>>
>> and we are probably able to cooperate.
>>    
> I will try to be a bit more verbose.
>
> The metapackages I make are for some kind of personal (commercial)  
> support service I have for people who wants to start with producing  
> music on Linux, mostly Ubuntu.

For my understanding there is no real need to keep things like this
personal / privately for the purpose of a commercial or Ubuntu use.  As
Debian is Upstream for Ubuntu and Ubuntu might serve as upstream for
your commercial distribution pushing things into "upstream" might not
harm at all.  I actually see the Blends effort as a good chance to base
commercial applications on these subsets of Debian because it makes
things easier even for your business.  It is finally your decision
but the concept is quite open to this application.

> But I'm open for collaboration. You are good in making the blends  
> structure and I might be able to help you with the packageslists.
>
> I'll look into your code.

Just feel free to subscribe a reasonable Debian Multimedia list
and I hereby repaetedly urge for a non strict packaging related
list (like this) but rather than (miss-)using the pure packaging
list.

Kind regards

    Andreas.

[1] http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/pkg-multimedia-maintainers/2010-October/013219.html

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