On Mon, May 07, 2001 at 11:42:49AM -0400, Mark Eichin wrote:
> err, does this break the use of tasks with apt-get later on? I've
> found it very useful to do (for example) "apt-get install task-x-window-system"
Possibly. task-x-window-system isn't really the greatest example of a task,
though.
You can always run tasksel, select the task, and go "Ok", instead of using
"apt-get install ..." though. Making "tasksel install server-dns" just go
ahead and install the task, bypassing the UI, would be fairly simple too.
> Does it not also make it a lot harder to update and experiment with tasks?
Not really: the Task: headers will be done via overrides, probably sourced
from boot-floppies CVS.
> (Couldn't this also be handled by dropping non-critical task deps to
> "recommends" or something like that, and an apt-get option to "try to
> get the recommends too"?)
In theory it could. In practice, it suffers from recommends being more
appropriately handled in a frontend rather than a lowlevel tool like
apt-get (to paraphrase, barely, Jason's take on apt-get supporting
recommends), and also from the same problems using depends: does: if I
remove a package from the task, the whole task breaks, rather than just
politely including one less package.
This was discussed in a fair degree of depth shortly after potato was
released, btw. Have a look at the thread on -devel which included:
http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-0008/msg00706.html
Cheers,
aj
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