Bug#846002: blends-tasks must not be priority:important (was Re: Bug#846002: Lowering severity)

[Ian Jackson <ijackson@chiark.greenend.org.uk>]

Wouter Verhelst writes ("Bug#846002: blends-tasks must not be priority:important (was Re: Bug#846002: Lowering severity)"):
> On Sat, Dec 10, 2016 at 12:06:44PM +0100, Philip Hands wrote:
> > How about one or both of:
> > 
> >   bare-bones     -- nothing selected
> >   minimal-server -- ssh and nothing else
> > 
> > Is there any objective way of working out what other combinations would
> > be popular, rather than just guessing?
> 
> Note that the whole point of tasksel was, originally, to show just that.
> Things have simply gotten out of hand.
> 
> If you're going to update tasksel, it might be good to keep that in
> mind...

Quite.  I thought Phil's original suggestion

  -->  standard desktop (will install $DESKTOP)  <--
       standard server  (includes ssh)
       other use cases

was good but perhaps even too long.  Anyone who wants anything ommore
complicated can cope with tasksel.  Even someone who wants a server
can very likely cope with tasksel.

Bear in mind that every option on this list needs to be read even by
the most inexperienced user.  There should be nothing on it that does
not need to be there.

Ian.

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