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Re: purpose of each task package



>> "Adam" == Adam Di Carlo <adam@onshore.com> wrote:

Adam> "Martin Bialasinski" <martin@internet-treff.uni-koeln.de> writes:
>> When it is clear, what the purpose of each task package is, it is
>> easier to define, which package should e included in it.

Adam> Sure.  Maybe you need to have a general definition of what task
Adam> packages are?  For instance:

Adam> A "task" is a specific and well-defined set of functionality.
Adam> Tasks should have natural meaning to users and/or developers.
Adam> Example tasks are "development using C", "typesetting with TeX",
Adam> etc.

Very good. This helps a lot.

>> Following is a list of current tasks, with description. I still need
>> the description/purpose of some of them. 

Adam> Where?  I think you forgot to include something.

It is there on the mail I got back from the listserver. I mail it to
you.

>> I am sure, Adam will gladly do this for task-sgml and task-tex :-)

Adam> Let me see your format first.  I am not really a TeX guy
Adam> anymore, except insofar as I deal with sgml->TeX.

I want to make control files for equivs, so the package creation gets 
easier. And there are perl module to parse Debian control files, which 
is a bonus for things to be done like size calculation.

Ciao,
	Martin


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