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Re: Tasks policy



On Tue, May 08, 2001 at 03:24:33PM -0400, Joey Hess wrote:
> Anthony Towns wrote:
> > Task: headers are more akin to Section: headers than Recommends:. Both in
> > that people really ought to be able to just uninstall a package if they
> > don't like it, and in that the complexity of dependency specifications
> > just isn't warranted.
> Have you thought at all about renaming Task: to Enhances:? 

Using a dependency field for this would mean you couldn't create a new task
without NMUing every package you intend to put in that task.

Cheers,
aj

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