Re: RFC: bringing back task packages

2011-02-18 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Fri, Feb 18, 2011 at 10:51:05AM +0100, Adam Borowski a écrit : > > On the contrary, I don't see what an input system would be good for. How > many languages can you write? The one from the country where I was born, and the one from the country that was kind enough to give me a work visa :) >

Re: RFC: bringing back task packages

2011-02-18 Thread Andreas Tille
[Not sure whether we should keep the long To: - list, I'd suggest continuing on debian-devel but keep it for the moment.] On Thu, Feb 17, 2011 at 07:20:30PM -0400, Joey Hess wrote: > A long time ago, tasksel installed task packages, which were regular > metapackages. This was dropped because the

Re: RFC: bringing back task packages

2011-02-18 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi, On Freitag, 18. Februar 2011, Charles Plessy wrote: > it would be very exciting to have the possibility to select a blend at the > installation. To circumvent the limitation of space, how about having a > single line to select ‘Chose a Debian Pure Blend‘, that would lead to a > page that provi

Re: RFC: bringing back task packages

2011-02-18 Thread Adam Borowski
On Fri, Feb 18, 2011 at 10:39:16AM +0900, Charles Plessy wrote: > > ### i18n > > > > There are many language tasks in tasksel. It might be good to have > > the task packages be moved out of tasksel; I don't know if it'd make > > sense to have individual language teams maintain them, or what. > >

Re: RFC: bringing back task packages

2011-02-18 Thread Josselin Mouette
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. Th

Re: RFC: bringing back task packages

2011-02-18 Thread Christian PERRIER
Quoting Joey Hess (jo...@debian.org): > ### i18n > > There are many language tasks in tasksel. It might be good to have > the task packages be moved out of tasksel; I don't know if it'd make > sense to have individual language teams maintain them, or what. Many teams are definitely too small to

Re: RFC: bringing back task packages

2011-02-17 Thread Paul Wise
On Fri, Feb 18, 2011 at 9:39 AM, Charles Plessy wrote: > it would be very exciting to have the possibility to select a blend at the > installation. To circumvent the limitation of space, how about having a single > line to select ‘Chose a Debian Pure Blend‘, that would lead to a page that > provi

Re: RFC: bringing back task packages

2011-02-17 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Thu, Feb 17, 2011 at 07:20:30PM -0400, Joey Hess a écrit : > > ### blends > > I think there is interest in getting some blends displayed in Taskel? > It's mostly orthagonal to this proposal, but this would help with > giving you full control over what your tasks do. I do feel that blends > nee