On 09/08/2014 07:45 PM, Ralf Jung wrote:
> They are often surprised to find Exim on their
> system just because they checked "standard system utilities"
Well, not only a mail server:
Package: task-mail-server
Architecture: all
Description: mail server
This task selects a variety of packages useful for a general purpose mail
server system.
Depends: ${misc:Depends},
exim4
Recommends:
dovecot-imapd,
dovecot-pop3d,
mailx,
mutt,
exim4-daemon-light,
exim4-config,
procmail,
mailagent,
# HELP: what about some webmail thing?
spamassassin,
sa-exim,
Note: Recommends are enabled by default in d-i. So it would install a
lot more than just an MTA.
> or an NFS
> server (which IIRC is installed unconditionally).
Package: task-file-server
Architecture: all
Description: file server
This task sets up your system to be a file server, supporting both CIFS
and NFS.
Depends: ${misc:Depends},
nfs-kernel-server,
samba
Recommends:
samba-doc,
smbclient,
swat,
cifs-utils,
winbind,
smartmontools
It's by the way surprising to see smartmontools, just as if monitoring
HDD health is only important for a file server. My take: it's always
important, whatever you do with a computer.
Anyway, all this shows that it's too generic for an advanced user.
> Having separate tasks for mail and NFS servers, would IMHO be a good
> step in the right direction.
Yes. Though the design idea behind tasksel is to have generic "theme"
and not technical words which a user wont understand. (note: it's not
that I agree (or not) with this design choice, this is just a fact that
I am mentioning here...)
> "SSH Server" is the only task I consider actually useful.
Don't you also find that "print-server" is also useful?
Thomas
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