2007/12/19, Frans Pop <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > Or maybe % of completed po-debconf translations? Or ... > > I'd say that relative contribution to Debian would be a pretty fair > criterion, which probably would come close to justifying the list you > proposed... >
This looks right to me but better ones are those came after these. > To be serious. The best solution would be to prioritize _within_ tasks. > Tasksel already supports "key" packages and "regular" packages. > > IMO it's not really fair that French manpages (random example) come before > essential Malayalam desktop support. I like this one. At least all <lang> and <lang-desktop> should come before say the man pages. > > debian-cd actually respects that distinction by sorting all key packages for > all tasks _before_ all regular packages for all tasks. > > The malayalam-desktop task currently looks as follows: > Key: > Packages: task-fields > Packages-list: > ttf-malayalam-fonts > scim-tables-additional > scim-gtk2-immodule > openoffice.org-l10n-ml-in > > I think a good case could be made for at least the first of those to be made > a key package. Not sure about the scim-* packages as I don't know how > exactly they are used. The openoffice l10n package should clearly remain as > a regular package. > SCIM is important because many use it as their primary input method. OO l10n can remain regular. > I could even see the introduction in tasksel of a third, call it "extra", > class that would list "nice to have, but no problem if it's not available" > packages" which are either ignored for debian-cd package sorting purposes > or are sorted after "regular" packages. > Or, alternatively, just creating <lang>-extra tasks that contain such > packages and are either listed lower down in task.list or not listed at all > (but that would possibly make language task selection in aptitude a bit > less obvious). This would extra work, dunno if it is worth it. > > I also wondered about sorting all <lang> tasks before all <lang>-desktop > tasks, but am not sure if that would be logical or not. It could improve > basic language support for some languages lower down the list, but could > also result in just more manpages packages being sorted early. For Malayalam this task is meaning less as we don't have support for console rendering (it has to have pango/qt/icu). > > Anyway, my conclusion is that improvements should not be sought by fighting > over the sort order, but by improving the way packages between and within > tasks are prioritized. In different words: by having a very clear policy of > how task files should be written and ensuring that this is done > consistently for all languages. This looks good - may be even lang-extra would make sense. > > IIRC another improvement that could be made includes further splitting the > desktop tasks into desktop, desktop-gnome, desktop-kde and desktop-xfce > tasks. I would love to see installer giving a choice of gnome/kde/xfce at least in DVDs. Regards Praveen -- പ്രവീണ് അരിമ്പ്രത്തൊടിയില് Join The DRM Elimination Crew Now! http://fci.wikia.com/wiki/Anti-DRM-Campaign