metapackages

[rosea.grammostola]

Andreas,

On 10/30/2010 03:54 PM, Andreas Tille wrote:
>
> [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.]

It was a message to you and not meant to be public. Not a very big deal 
to me either.
> 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.
>    

I always try to improve the state of linuxaudio cq debianaudio where 
possible. The question is whether there is really a need for such 
packages in Debian, because many people prefer the custom way, 
especially Debian people imo. For Ubuntu you have the ubuntustudio packages.

If someone else thinks such metapackages are really useful also for 
Debian and starts making the metapackages, I'm open for helping a bit. 
We could share the same code base. All though my personal stuff will 
likely be different (and changes a lot very often).

All the best,

\r