Task "main" for Debian Games

[Andreas Tille <andreas@an3as.eu>]

Hi Markus,

On Sat, Feb 01, 2014 at 10:19:59PM +0000, Markus Koschany wrote:
> The following commit has been merged in the master branch:
> commit bbe1fffb3dec7411e0cee22e2426747a2302104c
> Author: Markus Koschany <apo@gambaru.de>
> Date:   Sat Feb 1 23:19:38 2014 +0100
> 
>     All games in main (really).
> 
> diff --git a/tasks/main b/tasks/main
> index b33eee5..4915975 100644
> --- a/tasks/main
> +++ b/tasks/main
> @@ -28,8 +28,6 @@ Depends:
>   aisleriot,
>   alex4,
> ...

I noticed that you created a task main simply throwing in any game which
is also mentioned in the single tasks of Debian Games.  I'd like to
express my opinion that this is probably not the best idea.  While I
agree that a full overview about all might perhaps in the Games field a
thing which has some use (which is not really the case in other Blends),
there are some argiments against this strategy, thought.

  1. There is a full list automatically created at

       http://blends.debian.org/games/tasks/packagelist

     This full listing is not as excesively long and if you want
     to dive further into the details you can do so by following
     the link to the according task.

  2. I have no idea what you might about my last mail[1] but in case
     you agree that maintaining the tasks files is rather a manual work
     than an autogenerated list the main task becomes hard to maintain.

  3. I'm not convinced that a metapackage simply throwing in all and
     everything is what users really want.  While there is an option
     to prevent the creation of a metapackage (Metapackage: false) in
     the header (see Blends docs) and you just go with the web pages
     I plan to do a more clever approach:  It is a long time on my
     todo list for the Blends framework to enable Dependencies from
     other tasks which is for instance useful for Debian Science to
     directly suck in DebiChem, Debian GIS and Debian Med biology
     tasks.  While you can even now create a

         Depends: <metapackage>

     I also want to do some "resolution" of the content of these
     tasks for the web sentinel.  IMHO this would be a better approach
     to simply mention the single tasks in your "main" task ... in case
     you might really insist to keep this.

Hope I was able to provide some useful hints and thanks for your work on
Debian Games tasks.

Kind regards from Aberdeen Airport on my way back from Debian Med sprint

      Andreas.

[1] https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-games/2014/02/msg00002.html


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