>
> Now, there are some related problems happening. One big one is the
> fact that "Recommends" and "Suggests" have lost their usefulness
> since apt-get came on the scene. I venture to suggest that several of
> the inappropriate task-* packages exist purely to remedy this. If,
> e.g., the Roxen maintainer could add appropriate recommendations and
> suggestions, and feel that people would actually see them, he might
> not have been inspired to build a task-webserver-roxen package.
>
I think the task-* packages can be solved pretty easily with some
guidelines like:
Task packages can define different levels of installation. The
tasksel program will follow these rules for each case:
- Minimum, installs everything that the task-* package Depends on
- Standard, installs everything in Minimum, plus packages that it
Recommends
- Complete, installs all of the above plus packages that it
Suggests
Then a package such as task-ldap (since I know how LDAP might look) could
do:
Package: task-ldap
Depends: ldap-utils
Recommends: ldap-gateways, slapd
Suggests: libnss-ldap, libpam-ldap
Then in tasksel you choose minimum, standard or complete...
Ben
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