As I knew that IPS supports tagging on files (should be an attribute of
'file' action'?), and from the
document I can tell, that tag is a key-value pair, e.g., arch=i386. And Indiana team may prefer to bundle the localization contents, such as messages and online helps, to base package. E.g., the french messages and docs of openoffice would not be shipped as individual packages, but in openoffice@2.3.1 package, so that you may set a filter to install them.
While I'm curious, can I specify the package patterns in a filter? Such as
(arc=i386 | arc=generic) &
(packages=openoffice & locale=fr & (doc=true | message=true) |
packages=all-installed & locale=fr & (doc=true | message=true) |
packages=lang-french-support,ttf-french-fonts,...)
With this filter, I could install the docs and messages for openoffice and all existing packages (may already include oo), as well as the specified packages 'lang-french-support' and 'ttf-french-fonts'.
Certainly, lang-french-support and ttf-french-fonts should also have the locale=fr tag, while I may not want install all the fr l10n contents for un-installed packages.
And I assume that the sections or groups in
IPS-Gui are actually filters, would the filters be able to be installed or updated by IPS updating, or enduser could import a filter?
I sent the above questions to
pkg-discuss, while no response yet
