Re: packages tasksel expects to find in woody, that arn't there

[Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net>]

Ben Armstrong wrote:
> I'd like to see that.  Are end-users able to use that or is it just
> a developer tool?

It's doincludes.pl in tasksel cvs. It just implements a weak include
mechanism though, so #include kde is expanded to its dependencies, at
build time.

> Ideally, debian jr. would be structured as a set of checkboxes in
> tasksel that only appear when the top level package is selected.  i
> could then include the entire set of components (the current junior-
> meta packages) and have only the default ones checked by default.  the
> tasksel user could then refine their selection as needed.  If tasksel is
> ever modified to do this, a "hide/show" toggle may be needed to hide
> exploded lists of subtasks.
> 
> Of course now, this close to releasing woody is not the time to be
> pursuing this in earnest.  Just food for thought post-woody.

aptitude does this. See the tasks item at the bottom of its main menu.

--\ Tasks
  --- Development
  --\ End-user
    --\ Debian Jr.
p     junior-arcade                                         <none>    1.6
p     junior-art                                            <none>    1.2
p     junior-doc                                            <none>    1.10      
p     junior-games-card                                     <none>    1.3

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