Re: Is there a policy on `task-' packages?
* "Kurt" == Kurt D Starsinic <kstar@chapin.edu> wrote:
Kurt> I would call it a _very_ wide interpretation of glue. For
Kurt> example, task-devel-common doesn't depend on anything; it only
Kurt> suggests and recommends.
I haven't looked at it yet (time...) but I have to. This won't work
with apt.
Kurt> I'm also wondering how a naive user would choose between, e.g.,
Kurt> samba and task-samba, or gnome-network and task-gnome-net.
The new installation will ask if you want to go into dselect (and be
swampt by all the thousands of packages) and a selection utility
(which will only show the task packages).
As these are usual packages, you can later handle them with dselect,
and the task selection thing will also be available (in 2.0 and 2.1 it
was deleted, as it was useless later due to the technique used).
The task packages also have their description of cause.
Ciao,
Martin
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