[sbopkg-users] Feature proposal

[alkos333]

On Fri, Apr 17, 2009 at 5:44 PM, Robby Workman <rw at rlworkman.net> wrote:
> On Sat, 18 Apr 2009 00:10:01 +0200
> Mauro Giachero <mauro.giachero at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> On Sat, Apr 18, 2009 at 12:01 AM, alkos333 <me at alkos333.net> wrote:
>>
>> >
>> > Isn't Robby talking about merging several text files really?
>> >
>>
>> I read Robby's proposal as a "let's support queues referring to other
>> queues instead of packages". This someway involves having a text file
>> containing queue names, hence the management problems.
>>
>> If the idea is simply to be able to merge several queues (i.e. create
>> per-package queues, and use them to create a single queue containing
>> their union), then this is already possible: just load all the queues
>> in sbopkg and save the result.
>>
>> Or you had something different in mind?
>
>
> Well, I haven't written *any* code for sbopkg, and I don't expect to
> have time to do so in the future, so I should probably be ignored.
> That being said...
>
> You've got the gist of my idea, Mauro.  It would involve abstracting
> the concept of a queue, in such a way that a "multimedia" queue might
> contain the following:
>  mplayer x264 ffmpeg blahblah {and all their deps}
> A "network" queue might contain these:
>  xtables-addons pidgin-otr libotr blahblahblah and deps
> A "games" queue might look like this:
>  monkey-bubble frozenbubble tuxracer supertux blahblah and deps
>
> Long story short, you could then have a set of custom queuefiles that
> might look something like this:
>  kidsbox: multimedia graphics games
>  devbox: network devel libs virtualization
>  all: multimedia graphics games network devel libs virtualization
>
> I harbor no illusions that implementing such a thing would be either
> simple or necessarily desirable.  Unlike some, I *do* realize that some
> features would cause a project to stray from its primary goals if they
> were implemented...  :-)
>
> -RW
>
>
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Ok, Robby.... no fighting :P