On Sat, Jul 26, 2003 at 10:11:22PM -0400, Joey Hess wrote: > > The task information comes from Task: lines in the Packages file. To > whit:
You are right, I forgot about that. > Package: foo-locale-es > Task: desktop & spanish, office & spanish > > And then tasksel and aptitude and anything else that deals with this > also updated. They'd need to be modified either way really though. What > I was thinking about was making the Task field look something like this > instead: > > Task: desktop-spanish, spanish-office > > But I now realize this is almost identical anyway. Perhaps slightly > more simplstic and requiring no parser changes is all. I'd be glad to It is also less flexible, you cannot have relationships which can be of the sense ('if A and not B' or 'if A and B or C'). > see either implemented in tasksel and aptitude. That would be a nice improvement, care to file a wishlist bug. I cannot work on those changes but maybe somebody will jump at it. > I thought language-env had the same functionality as the old user-ll > packages? That's what its description says anyway. The description is not correct. I will file a bug. Even if language-env is a cleaner way to do things than the old user-XX stuff it does not yet provide the same functionality. Regards Javi
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