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Subject: Re: setup test #4
From: Robert Collins <robert.collins@itdomain.com.au>
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Date: 02 Nov 2001 16:39:35 +1100
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On Fri, 2001-11-02 at 16:29, Christopher Faylor wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 02, 2001 at 04:24:42PM +1100, Robert Collins wrote:
> >On Fri, 2001-11-02 at 16:19, Christopher Faylor wrote:
> >>>The long term goal for source downloads is to let them be selected
> >>>separately from the binaries, either as separate source packages, or as
> >>>a completely independent spin control where the current src box it.
> >>
> >>Yay!
> >
> >Now, if only someone would code this.
> 
> The separate source packages should be relatively easy.  They could
> just be another package, right?  So you'd see something like:
> 
> cygwin-1.3.3-1
> cygwin-1.3.3-1-src
> 
> I guess you could have a separate "Source" category, too, although
> that would complicate setup.ini parsing a bit.

That part wouldn't, you'd simply put the package into the Source
category.

> You could also have something like a "View Source" button which toggles
> whether source was selected or not although that might just be too
> many buttons...

Thats one of the issues.

Here's my off-top-of-head list....
1) For GPL and user friendliness, I should be able to pick a package
foo, and get the source for it, for any version I can download at a
given time.
2) Source's shouldn't clutter the display for the average user.
3) Source's have their own dependencies, and they should be (optionally)
grabbed automatically. I.E. grabbing vim-src grabs ncurses-dev for the
headers.
4) Sources can be associated with more than one package. So grabbing the
source for any of ncurses, libncurses, ncurses-dev downloads the same
source.
5) Any .spec/dsc/diff files should also be associated automatically.

So theres a bunch of little tasks that need to be done.

Rob


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