Re: cleaning up our task packages
On Thu, Dec 07, 2000 at 10:39:34AM -0800, Joey Hess wrote:
> 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.
Yes, and as I suggested the last time a similar discussion arose,
perhaps the first step might be to come up with an alternative naming
scheme for empty packages which exist to make it easier for the user
to install a set of packages, but which are NOT designed to appear as
a "task" in tasksel.
The thing is that these empty group packages are useful, and I think
people are creating them because they are useful without thinking
about tasksel at all. (At least, I hope so in some cases,
e.g. roxen.)
In the longer term, I think it would be nice to enhance tasksel, maybe
with some sort of heirarchical mechanism. Thus, if you chose the top
level Gnome or KDE task, it could open up a subtree of finer grained
subchoices. But that would obviously require some design and coding.
For now, I think it would be good enough to provide an alternative
naming scheme for packages that don't really belong in tasksel.
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