Henning Makholm wrote: > Can tasksel tasks be manipulated programmatically with the same > apt/aptitude inferfaces that metapackages can? This question does not have a yes or no answer, the situation is rather more complex than that. FWIW, I advocated using packages with collections of recommends as task packages when the task system was being designed, but the idea was discarded for various reasons. You can find the full details of that decision in the threads starting here, but I don't see much point in rehashing it since very little of relevance has changed since: http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2000/08/msg00696.html http://lists.debian.org/debian-boot/2001/05/msg00075.html -- see shy jo
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