Doug Way <dway at riskmetrics.com> wrote:
> Or more specifically, you could have a utility for the "configurations" 
> you describe, which would convert a single configuration into a SAR 
> containing the specified packages.  This would probably not be the 
> typical way people install things, but it would be handy for putting 
> standalone apps on CD's as Stephane describes.
> 
> Although I guess there is a question of how "deep" you'd go with such a 
> utility... one might assume that the user already has such-and-such 
> version of a Full image, and you'd only include the packages in the SAR 
> which are not already in the Full image.

Somewhere in here, it would be nice for the guy who installs this
mega-SAR to have some way to verify that all the dependencies are met. 
Suppose the person does not have a pristine image of any particular
kind, e.g. because they've added a bunch of your other mega-SAR's to
their image already.



-Lex