Re: More tasks option in Tasksel: what tasks do you want there? (reloaded)
On Wed, Sep 10, 2014 at 5:57 AM, Markus Koschany wrote:
> Creating a games-all metapackage would be easily doable
As someone who has been trying to maintain a system (rather than
metapackage) that is basically that (plus a bunch of games removed
from Debian), I don't think it is actually that easy. You could do it
based on sections but there are things in the games section that
aren't really games and there are things in other sections that are
games. You could do it based on debtags but I don't think every game
is debtagged. You could do it based on files in /usr/games but not
every game uses that. You could do it based on a combination of these
things but there are a number of game variants/versions, some of which
conflict with each other. At the end of the day it would have to be a
curated list like all the games-* metapackages, possibly mostly based
on the above things.
> there was a more elegant way to solve this problem and if we could avoid
> the creation of "meta-metapackages". I could imagine another check box
> in tasksel for instance. If checked all separate installable games-*
> tasks for users would be selected and all tasks for developers and
> artists, the -dev packages, would be excluded.
That does sound interesting, but personally I would want a games-all
metapackage to exist.
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bye,
pabs
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