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Re: cleaning up our task packages



Seth Arnold wrote:
> Joey, nice work; I agree with the general gist of what you are aiming
> for. When I saw the list, I thought to myself, ``this doesn't buy much
> over selecting the packages by hand''.

Exactly.

> However, I think we can agree that many of these packages are *useful*,
> even if they shouldn't be shown at tasksel time; perhaps renaming the
> cut packages to be: meta-netscape or meta-c-programming or
> meta-kde-everything ... would be very handy in allowing those who like
> gnome to say, ``I want gnome, but I don't want to drag KDE along with
> it, and I don't know which packages make a good gnome system.''

There is nothing wrong with a package called "gnome" or "kde". Task
packages should not be confused with metapackages, they are only a subset
thereof.

-- 
see shy jo



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