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Bug#266472: Additional note



On Wed, Aug 18, 2004 at 08:37:42PM +0100, Joey Hess wrote:
> Nikolaus Schulz wrote:
[...] 
> > * No description of tasks in tasksel
> > 
> > Presenting the list of tasks, it would be nice to provide descriptions.
> > E.g. I first deselected the "mailserver" task because I usually run Exim
> > with a smarthost and no relaying, something I wouldn't call a server
> > setup...
> 
> Since that's indeed not what you'd expect a mail server to be, you don't
> need to select the mail server task to get exim configured in this way.
> The mail-server task installs spamassassin, an imap server, procmail, a
> pop server, etc.
> 
> So do you have a better example?

First, the "mail server" task was (the only one) selected by default
(why?). 
Second, deselecting the mail server task marked exim -- and others --
for removal, which would have left the system with no MTA at all.
Regarding this, I think it's a good example. Though it probably 
indicates another issue.

To give another example, take "desktop environment".  What's this?
Gnome, KDE? grep-available lists no such task. And if it did, I wouldn't
have this information available running tasksel.

Some further information would be great. Perhaps offered on request,
like Debian package descriptions.
Isn't tasksel targetting the less experienced users, to help them
getting a full-featured system up and running quickly?


Greetings, Nikolaus




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