From: "T. Onoma" <transami@...>
Date: 2003-11-29T19:24:39+09:00
Subject: Re: Baker

On Friday 28 November 2003 11:12 pm, Simon Strandgaard wrote:

> How does this works?  not having a central/homedir database how?

You'll have to join us to get the scoop on that. Its pretty simple though. 
(albiet were still working out some of the finer aspects of it)

> >   5) Creates automatic uninstall scripts

> I have been involved in an operating-system project some years ago.
> We collected many nice ideas. Many documents are unfortunatly in danish,
> but there are some in english.  You can browse them here:
> http://cvs.sourceforge.net/viewcvs.py/metasystem/text/uk/cryos/dos/
> Please tell me what you think.
>
> I would like to help if the project goals were like the visions of the
> above project :-)

I looked at those, and they describe ideas for an OS which has many 
interesting and broad ideas. there are certanly areas of overlap. But what 
specifically is the vision you're thinking you want them to have in common?

> How does the package-category system work ?

There are three ways. Basic categories are just arbitrary tags for searching 
and what not. 2nd, we have "use cases" like gentoo. These just identify which 
packages can work together, and allows you to say which options to leave out 
or put in across the board. 3rd, you can catagorize packages into groups 
called RecipeCollection. This is commonly used for, say, grouping all the 
Gnome programs together. But you can create any collection you want. We do 
not catagorize programs into a heirachy, if that's what you are asking. 
RecipeCollections make it uneccessary.

We have a mialing list: baker-baker@rubyforge.org. We welcome you to join and 
see what you think.

	http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/baker-baker

-t0