Packaging improvements

[Sandis Neilands]

Hello!

On 1/17/06, Chris Peterman <kyral at ubuntu.com> wrote:
> Customizable Metapacks would be quite useful, but I can think of
> another use case (one that I am facing right now)
>
> My Linux lab is switching the computers from Gentoo over to Ubuntu. So
> this means we need to customize Ubuntu-Desktop to add apps we want and
> take out those we don't want. It would be quite handy to have a
> utility aside from modifying ubuntu-meta or even making your own meta
> to do this.

When I had to install ubuntu on several machines (where java/flash and
mp3 was strict requirement) I wrote some very basic shell scripts that
went something like this:

#!/bin/bash
sudo aptitude install -y package1 package2
#Register fonts, gstreamer plugins or echo "Hello World!!!";
exit 0;

If there was a need (very unlikely) to remove the set of software
users just changed install with remove.

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