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Re: cvs commit to tasksel/debian by joeyh



>     - Moved samba-server to file-server, and made that include nfs stuff
>       too.

Cool, I was going to suggest we kill all the Unix package names in tasks,
because people may very well be new to Unix as well as to Debian (that would
be me) and have no idea what the names stand for.

>     - Killed debian-dev(el) task, since it does not meet our task criteria
>       -- nowhere near 10% of debian users are debian developers (we hope!),
>       and probably not enough regular users will use this package to make
>       up the difference. This is my own package, so I'm willing to be
>       persuaded otherwise, though..

I think a lot of people would be interested in a general development task,
whether they are programmers or just wannabe programmers, with the idea that
if they want to explore it, it's already there. Also a task for people who
just want to be able to 'roll their own' source/kernel as is common in the
Unix world.



It would sure be cool if the UI could show the user how much disk space is
going to be eaten by a task. Every installer in the commercial world does
this. There's probably not time for this release, but maybe we could put it
on a wishlist somewhere. That also would be helpful for people trying to
determine how to partition their disks, before installing (assuming it could
be run from a web page script somewhere to give potential users access to
the info beforehand).


--

Chris Tillman
tillman@azstarnet.com



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