On Thursday 12 July 2007 06:52:11 ktneely at astroturfgarden.com wrote: > On Thu, Jul 12, 2007 at 10:35:45AM +0200, Wahlau - wrote: > > on top of this idea, how about the ability of being able to have the > > softwares checked in terms of dependencies and such, so that upon > > insertion of the internal disk, it would be cross checked and my > > Could you not create your own "Wahlau repository" where all the software in > it is checked with and against all the other software in the repository? > Then, a user would need to only have that repository setup and all the > software would just work. > > Ideally, maemo.org or some sub-repository hosted at maemo would work this > way but the beauty of open source is that anyone should be able to set > something like this up. > > Kevin I personally use the dselect methodology that was outlined in an earlier e-mail. Since with 2007 and how it restores the /etc/apt/sources.list file I'm able to do a re-install back to "normal" with only about 20 minutes of my time (+ another 10 or 15 to d/l and install everything) James
