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Re: Priorities



Excellent idea!  I'd like to see this improved tasksel program.

and, if tasksel can accept some option to switch the topdomain
of the name space ("task-" part currently), then it can be used
some other meta package in different name space.

In <[🔎] 20001023081507.I2683@visi.net>,
  on Mon, 23 Oct 2000 08:15:07 -0400,
    on Re: Priorities,
 Ben Collins <bcollins@debian.org> wrote:

> I think the task-* packages can be solved pretty easily with some
> guidelines like:
> 
> 	Task packages can define different levels of installation. The
> 	tasksel program will follow these rules for each case:
> 
> 	- Minimum, installs everything that the task-* package Depends on
> 	- Standard, installs everything in Minimum, plus packages that it
> 	  Recommends
> 	- Complete, installs all of the above plus packages that it
> 	  Suggests
> 
> Then a package such as task-ldap (since I know how LDAP might look) could
> do:
> 
> Package: task-ldap
> Depends: ldap-utils
> Recommends: ldap-gateways, slapd
> Suggests: libnss-ldap, libpam-ldap
> 
> Then in tasksel you choose minimum, standard or complete...

-- 
  Taketoshi Sano: <sano@debian.org>,<sano@debian.or.jp>,<kgh12351@nifty.ne.jp>



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