Benjamin Weber has been writing about his metapackage project a few times recently but hasn't received much feedback. So I thought I'd try to help promoting it a bit, since I think it has the potential to solve some very common issues, like the never ending debate about multimedia codecs. Of course we won't be able to include the codecs, but with Benjamins project in the distro we could make such things as installing those codecs ridiculously simple. You'll find a package of the metapackage yast2-module here: http://bw.uwcs.co.uk/mp/yast2-mpp-0.0-0.suse102.noarch.rpm I've set up a quick proof of concept web page to show some examples of how this metapackage handling can help users: http://suse.linuxin.dk/ymp The page is optimized for Konq only, which doesn't matter much, as this is just a proof of concept, and currently only konqueror has support for the metapackages in the abovementioned package anyway. Here are some screenshots of what happens when the user clicks a link to a metapackage: http://suse.linuxin.dk/ymp/catalogue.png http://suse.linuxin.dk/ymp/packages.png http://suse.linuxin.dk/ymp/settings.png http://suse.linuxin.dk/ymp/status.png The "metapackage" (*.ymp) itself is an xml file, with information about repositories and packages to install, the syntax is very self explanatory, try downloading this file and opening it with your favourite text editor: http://suse.linuxin.dk/ymp/kde.ymp The metapackage handler can do much more than what has been described above. It could pontentially also be used to add repos only, without installing any packages. It can be used to install packages instantly when you find them in the package search, also developed by Benjamin. See: http://benjiweber.co.uk:8080/webpin/index-test.jsp (hint: look for the "install now" links in search results). I'm sure Benjamin would be happy with any testing and comments. And it would be nice to have some sort of official comment as to whether this is something we have a chance of seing included in the distro. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: yast-devel+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: yast-devel+help@opensuse.org