Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> writes: >> It would be better. There are people that dont want Gnome AND kde, just >> one of it. >> Why not split it? Then the user can really choose if he wants a gnome >> or kde desktop and does not have to search for crap to uninstall. > Tasks are really aimed at users who don't know what software they > want. Yes, but they are useful for everyone else too. > If you know what software you want, you can go pick it by hand, no? > There are nice kde and gnome metapackages to facilitate that. It is much easier for everyone just to type tasksel and after it get a whole kde/gnome/whatever thing installed. IMO that is the real reason for tasks, make installation of software groups easy. If not we could live with a big list of meta packages giving the user just a list of them. (Yes, i know that is the old way of task packages :) ). IMO tasksel should have a really big list of tasks and never say "No" to tasks *if* they are a.) no duplicate of existing ones and b.) someone gives you a list of packages for the task. Makes life even for advanced users easy. (Imagine installing a new system somewhere and just have to select 3 or 4 tasks in tasksel to get your normal environment, without having to remember a set of metapackages you have to install with dselect/apt-get). One more task could not be bad (if it is not task-warez :) ). Just my 2¢. -- begin OjE-ist-scheisse.txt bye, Joerg Encrypted Mail preferred! Registered Linux User #97793 @ http://counter.li.org end
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