Re: cleaning up our task packages
[Ben Collins - Wed, 6 Dec 2000 11:46:01 PM CST]
> > Which doesn't include some very important tasks (task-web-server
> > and task-programming come to mind), but is a large improvment from
> > what we have now. And almost even fits on one screen.
> >
>
> Maybe we need a way to define subtasks so we get output like:
>
> [ ] LDAP : LDAP libraries, server and clients
> [ ] LDAP Devel : LDAP Development libraries
> [ ] LDAP Server : LDAP Server
> [ ] LDAP Tools : LDAP Utilities
> [ ] LDAP Name Service : LDAP NSS and PAM for Name Service
>
> Makes much more sense. Tasksel could unfold only when asked to do so, like
> when a user is really interested in the tasks specifics, or they want only
> certian portions of a task.
How about just merge the many little but related tasks into a big
task? Like task-desktop-environment, for instance, would still
just be task-desktop-environment, but before downloading it would
dig up little questions to ask you about the ones you selected, like
so:
TASK-DESKTOP-ENVIRONMENT
Which desktop environments do you want to install?
[ ] GNOME
[ ] KDE
[ ] XFCE
e.g., kind of like how Anxious asks for window managers and stuff.
This would also allow for more complicated questions on the installation
of a task package. We can only stack so much information about all the
task packages together on one page after all.
> Of course, this requires the tasksel author agreeing to implement
> something like this :)
I don't know how much tasksel would have to change to do this one. :-)
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