Re: Proposing task-debian
On Mon, Apr 30, 2001 at 07:31:48PM -0400, Alan Shutko wrote:
> Matt Zimmerman <mdz@debian.org> writes:
>
> > In many Linux distributions, Emacs is a high-level installation task, like
> > "Games" or "Mail". This makes sense to the average user, who usually either
> > wants Emacs or does not.
>
> For a little amplification, while "Emacs as an editor" may not make
> much sense as a task (only a couple packages), a task which installed
> most Emacs add-ons might be useful.
I think the general idea is to get Emacs out of standard, since a lot of people
don't want it, but still offer it as a straightforward option during the
installation process. Currently, the choices for package selection at install
time are tasksel and dselect. With the "straightforward" restriction I gave
above, tasksel is the only option.
Maybe this will change with debian-installer, or some future device.
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- mdz
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