Re: Adding game related tasks to tasksel (Was: Debian Games Pure Blend)
Hi Petter,
On Mon, Aug 04, 2014 at 12:13:19PM +0200, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote:
> [Paul Wise]
> > How would d-i decide which packages containing tasks to install
> > before running tasksel? AFAICT neither education-tasks nor isenkram
> > are mentioned by any d-i component.
>
> For debian-edu, we have udebs pulling in education-tasks in a
> pre-pkgsel.d script.
I think you are arguing from a position that your target user *knows*
about Debian Edu and installs some dedicated Debian Edu install medium.
However, we want to approach that some random user does not know about
the existence of say Debian Edu to stick to this example. How would you
try to integrate some task selection ito the default Debian installer to
teach people that there are education specific tasks (and game specific,
science specific etc tasks)?
> > I guess d-i needs to be changed to install all available tasksel
> > data by default?
>
> It is techincally possible, but not easy as the list of packages with
> tasksel data is not trivial to extract from the archive. One could
> use 'apt-file search' but it would force every installation to
> download lots of data just to extract a few bytes. :)
I think that's no solution specifically we do not intend to install any
tasksel files but only those of some specific Blends that should be
brought to the attention of our users.
Kind regards
Andreas.
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