woody tasks need testing
Something that has received no real testing yet in the woody install
process is the revamped task system. Tasksel does not use task packages
anymore, and the new set of tasks includes a lot of off-the-cuff changes
that may well be broken.
If you do a test woody install anytime soon, pick a task package or two,
report if there is an install failure of course, and then after the
install, take some time to see if the task does its work at setting up
the system to perform a given task, and if there is anything it could
handle better by installing more or different packages.
For example, after installing the web server task, is there a basic web
server up and running? After installing the desktop task, one would
expect to see everything described in its description working -- X, a
display manager that allows chosing between KDE and GNOME, some file
managers, and a graphical web browser. (But don't bother testing the
desktop task; I know it's badly broken!)
It would also be nice to know if all the tasks can be installed
together. No packages in the tasks should conflict, but some probably
do.
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see shy jo
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