Le jeudi 17 février 2011 à 19:20 -0400, Joey Hess a écrit :
> ### gnome
>
> Would the gnome team want to maintain a task-gnome?
> Much of tasksel's gnome task is already taken from the gnome-core
> and gnome metapackages, with a few more things added.
Yes, they fit globally the same purpose. There are just some small hacks
to handle tasksel; for example we allow OOo as an alternative to
gnome-office to avoid installing both by default when OOo was already
selected by the desktop task. I don’t think anything needs to change on
that matter.
> task-gnome
> would not need to deal with core X desktop stuff; task-desktop would
> still handle that. Although we could move away from having a task-desktop
> if you'd prefer.
I’d prefer to keep it separate. The gnome metapackage should be
installable on a session server without any X server installed.
> There are also many localized desktop tasks. Mostly these add things
> like localization packages for openoffice, and occasionally some fonts.
> I'd like to see those be maintained in conjunction with task-gnome,
> but it would mean some coordination with the dozens of people who
> currently maintain those localization tasks.
I’m afraid the approach of using tasks for localization does not scale.
Instead, I’d like to see introduced something like conditional
recommends: that is, recommends that would only be installed if a
third-party package if already here (and that would get installed when
installing the said third-party package).
This way, you could do in all packages something like:
Package: aspell
Conditional-Recommends: aspell-en {task-english}, aspell-fr
{task-french}, …
This would also be useful for some plugins. I don’t know how hard this
would be to implement in APT.
> Packages -> Recommends
> Recommends may be better than what we have now in tasksel.
> If aptitude auto-selects *new* recommends of a previously installed
> package to be installed? Currently new Packages added to a task
> only affect new installations of that task.
AFAIK new Recommends are not installed. That is the reason why we still
heavily use Depends in metapackages instead.
Cheers,
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