Re: Tasks and CD sizes again
On Wed, Aug 01, 2012 at 10:31:46AM -0400, Joey Hess wrote:
>Steve McIntyre wrote:
>> I'm thinking we should possibly drop one of these deps in the loop
>> between task-$DESKTOP-desktop and task-desktop. Joey, what do you
>> think?
>
>I think that the dependencies need to remain circular, and as tasksel
>has no maintainer scripts, it avoids the well-known problems with
>circular dependencies.
ACK, fair enough.
>apt-get install task-desktop should install a usable desktop
>environment, not just an X server (with no display manager even)
>and a web browser
>
>apt-get install task-foo-desktop should install an X server.
Agreed. OK, I'll have to tweak sort_deps some more to make sure that
missing Recommends don't break tasks then.
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Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK. steve@einval.com
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