[pkg-fgfs-crew] Bug#618890:

[Arnt Karlsen]

On Sat, 19 Mar 2011 17:42:23 +0000, Chris wrote in message 
<1300556543.16575.17.camel at chris-desktop.home>:

> Hi Tomek,
> 
> That dependency model was chosen as its not required to download the
> base aircraft or the base model set to use FlightGear.
> 
> To run FlightGear you need a plane, the base aircraft package only
> includes a fraction of the aircraft available for FlightGear, the
> others are available to download at the FlightGear website and these
> will allow you to run FlightGear. You also don’t need the scenery or
> models to run FlightGear however as you have found out you run in to
> problems if you omit either.
> 
> If you made these packages dependencies, it would stop users such as
> myself for installing the FlightGear binary package, but using my own
> scenery and aircraft. If using terrasync, the models package needs
> removing and replacing with the models released by upstream as some of
> the latest models cant be found in the package released by Debian. 
> 
> At the moment Debian does not handle the amount of data produced by
> the FlightGear project well, this is because the tools are just not
> there yet.
> 
> I still feel this is the best dependency solution.
> 
> Chris

..I agree for Sid and Experimental, for stable and testing, 
I respectfully disagree and submit a wee patch. ;o)

..another way is use my try at a control file as a starting point 
to create a "flightgear-with-everything" meta package, at least
Installed-Size is wrong.

-- 
..med vennlig hilsen = with Kind Regards from Arnt Karlsen
...with a number of polar bear hunters in his ancestry...
  Scenarios always come in sets of three: 
  best case, worst case, and just in case.
-------------- next part --------------
A non-text attachment was scrubbed...
Name: control-flightgear-with-all-2.0.0-4RC0
Type: application/octet-stream
Size: 899 bytes
Desc: not available
URL: <http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/pkg-fgfs-crew/attachments/20110319/0c151a05/attachment-0002.obj>
-------------- next part --------------
A non-text attachment was scrubbed...
Name: patch-2.0.0-4RC0
Type: application/octet-stream
Size: 1351 bytes
Desc: not available
URL: <http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/pkg-fgfs-crew/attachments/20110319/0c151a05/attachment-0003.obj>