Re: Those task packages
Philip Charles wrote:
> First the bad news. desktop includes most of the other tasks, far worse
> than basic-desktop.
Figures.
> Now the good news.
> desktop
> laptop
> dialup
> print-server
> unix-server make up a 542765K first CD.
That looks good. If you need to gain space I'd suggest demoting
unix-server to a later cd.
Have you checked for any other partial overlaps with other tasks that
are not in the above list?
> We have a real problem now there two are important CDs
What't the other one, language stuff?
> and there is no way
> we can work round this issue, and it will be worse in twelve months. The
> simple solution is to go the Red Hat way and say "use the two CDs or
> else".
"or else network", which everyone will really be doing anyway, right?
I figure the only people who will have only one CD and no network are
probably a rasonably close match with people who just want a desktop.
> Another suggestion, use dummy packages, these would not be the same as the
> potato task-* packages. tasksel would look for these new task-* packages
> and if it found task-foo it would only then offer foo in its menu. There
> would still be a Task: field so these dummy packages would be included in
> tasks/task-woody. These would not have to be maintained as they would be
> fully functional as long as the particular task remained in existence
> regardless of changes within that task. If people really wanted to be
> sophisticated then they could be designed not to be installed.
It's the same effect as marking packages in tasks as essential to that
task, and omitting to show the task unless they are available. If
necessary we can surely come up with something post-woody.
We need DVD's.
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