Re: cleaning up our task packages
Cheng H. Lee wrote:
> I agree that it is a bit long; however, I think the best way to resolve this
> would be to tell the user that there are more tasks listed below
people_who_have_never_run_tasksel_lately_if_at_all++;
> Some of these tasks should be folded into one, e.g. the multiple KDE or GNOME
> tasks; most of the key programs related to these tasks would then be installed
> and the user can then trim it using apt or dselect. Other tasks, however,
> shouldn't be consolidate, especially the programming stuff. I say this because
> doing so would pack to many separate things into the task meta-package. For
> example, if I were interested in C programming only, I would install the C
> programming task package; if instead, it were folded into a single programming
> task package, I would end up with a lot of stuff I don't want or need like
> Python or Perl.
Well fine. This is why I want to come up with a set of guidelines and
put them in policy, then we can apply them to individual cases.
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see shy jo, am[ua]sed that he uses a c-style variable, not perl
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