Re: Question about having an always clean base system in Debian Sid

[Geek87 <geek87@gmx.com>]

Le mercredi 27 janvier 2010 à 10:43 +0100, Frans Pop a écrit :
> On Wednesday 27 January 2010, Geek87 wrote:
> > I also would like to have it working similarly for the tasks: for
> > example if I have a task "Mail server" installed depending on Sendmail
> > and that the new version of this task now depends on Postfix, I would
> > like Sendmail to be automatically removed and Postfix to be
> > automatically installed. The technique above doesn't work for the tasks.
> 
> I don't think that's possible as the package management system does not 
> keep any state information about which tasks are installed.
> 
> You have to see tasks and tasksel as an optional convenience feature, not 
> as something that's a part of the core package management (unlike for 
> example meta packages).
> 
> Cheers,
> FJP
> 
> 
Thanks! So it's impossible to have it work with tasksel. And for the
base system? Does someone have an idea?

Thanks in advance.

Bye
Geek87