Re: Maintainers of scientific applications: Please maintain tasks files! (Was: Bug#592701: science-statistics: typo in package description)
On Sat, Aug 14, 2010 at 10:18:53AM -0500, Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso wrote:
> > Suggests: libqrupdate-dev
> >
> > to the mathematics-dev tasks.
>
> Ah, so wait, these are tasks like tasksel tasks? I see...
The name "task" was definitely inspired by tasksel and the blends-dev
tools build not only metapackages but also a tasksel control file which
enables to use also tasksel for installing the packages in question.
However, the tasksel mehod does not differentiate between Depends and
Suggests (because tasksel does not know this difference).
> Yes, that's accurate. Someone who *really* wants to do QR
> factorisations would benefit from this package, but it's a very niche
> use outside of how it's used transparently from Octave. It does have
> some interesting computational ideas from its author.
Thanks for the clarification
Andreas.
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