Re: [Tuxpaint-devel] Managing large # of stamps

[Albert C. <aca...@gm...>]

On 10/15/06, Bill Kendrick <nb...@so...> wrote:
> On Sun, Oct 15, 2006 at 05:10:50PM -0400, Albert Cahalan wrote:
> >
> > Like this: the "tuxpaint" is an empty package which depends on
> > a "tuxpaint-bin" package (containing the executable) and on every
> > stamp package. If you install "tuxpaint" you get absolutely everything.
>
> Not a bad idea.  How do other large packages (say, OpenOffice.org,
> or some clipart collection) manage this, though?

I got the idea from Debian's GNOME and X11 packages.

I installed GNOME. I got everything GNOME-related, including
stuff that I personally find to be useless junk. Later, after I had
everything set up and knew what I liked, I deleted the main
package (leaving the stuff it had installed) and then deleted the
unwanted packages. The big package got me started though,
with nothing missing.

The same for X11. I got all the stuff I might need, plus lots of
drivers for hardware I don't have and some other stuff I don't
need. That's OK. The important thing is that nothing was missing.
Later, I removed the main package and the excess drivers.

I think this is a great way to do things. If I didn't know what
was going on, I'd still have what I want. If I really want to save
a bit of disk space, it is still possible.