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An Early Look at Progeny Debian 2.0
An Early Look at Progeny Debian 2.0
Posted Apr 22, 2004 13:44 UTC (Thu) by leandro (guest, #1460)Parent article: An Early Look at Progeny Debian 2.0
Perhaps I am just stupid, but how are these components an improvement? Perhaps they'd be for a lesser distro were dependencies are broken, apt hasn't been ported, or repositories aren't available, but in Debian I just to aptitude install evolution and I have everything I want.
Perhaps the idea here is to distribute the packages outside the repositories or CDs, so that one could install something like Oracle or DB2 in a single-file component without loosing package granularity?
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An Early Look at Progeny Debian 2.0
Posted Apr 22, 2004 17:22 UTC (Thu) by ArsonSmith (guest, #5695) [Link]
Imagine a sources.list like this:deb http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ stable base xfree86-4
deb http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/backports/ testing kde-3 gnucash
deb http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/backports/ unstable gnome-2.6
or something similar. It may allow the build system to automate backports of componets if possible. Although I don't really know. I do think it will make it much eaiser to update a single component, but as the article says, the user will see very little if any changes. It is the deveopers that will benifit.