[Debian-olpc-devel] Bug#563436: Bug#563436: Bug#563436: sugar-0.88: sugar depends on python-numpy and python-pygames

[Jonas Smedegaard]

On Sun, Jan 03, 2010 at 01:24:45PM +0100, Sascha Silbe wrote:
>On Sun, Jan 03, 2010 at 12:58:34PM +0100, Tomeu Vizoso wrote:
>
>>My understanding was that Jonas believes that software should be
>>deployed by the distro and not by developers (by using mechanisms such
>>as .xo bundles). From that POV sugar-platform is not needed.
>I don't think it should be an either-or decision. In fact it cannot 
>be; there's no way Debian could ship _every_ activity.
>Sugar Platform is intended as a base line for _all_ activities, esp. 
>all the random "small" ones.
>I guess Jonas was talking about Fructose activities, but will let him 
>speak for himself. :)

User A installs the upcoming Debian Squeeze from a DVD onto his laptop 
deep in the jungle with only expensive satellite link to the outside 
world, so will only install "main" packages, not "contrib" ones that 
depends on software not released with Debian (packages in "non-free" are 
hosted using Debian infrastructure but not included with the final 
distribution releases).  User A will install sucrose-0.88 but not 
honey-0.88.

User B installs a future Skolelinux consisting on Debian packages but 
unlike Debian also including a few "non-free" packages - notably Etoys.  
User B will install debian-edu-sugar which pulls in both sucrose-0.88 
and honey-0.88, and perhaps also pulls a few popular .xo bundles if 
reachable at install time.

User C installs some future Ubuntu which includes Sugar packaged as in 
Debian except for a few tweaks: a splash screen is hacked in at startup 
time, and sucrose-0.88 is made to depend on honey-0.88 as the many names 
are considered user-unfriendly by Ubuntu Sugar developers. ;-)

User D wants to develop Sugar activities for Latin America, so installs 
Debian unstable and the sugar-dev package.


Does that make sense?

Did I miss some obvious use case?


 - Jonas

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