David Nusinow wrote: > I don't think the target market for tasksel is fundamentally different from > that of the large metapackages like kde or xorg. People make exactly the > same complaints about metapackages. What I'm proposing is that we eliminate > the distinction entirely and just move the major metapackages to tasksel if > this can be done transparently and give actual benefits. Aside from the > fact that it would take work to do it, is there a fundamental reason why > this can't or shouldn't be done?
One problem is that tasksel is used to select between tasks, and kde or xorg are not a task, they're a fairly-well-defined collection of software. Tasks are slightly less well defined as the idea is it's some collection of software that sets the computer up to perform a certian task. debtags might be a better match for what you're wanting to do, really.. -- see shy jo
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