> I've searched all the docs I can find and trolled through the Debian
> website, but I haven't seen any mention of `task-' as a prefix for a
> package name. Does it have a specific meaning, and is there a policy?
No policy yet. But they are intended as metapackages which contain no
code, but depend on those packages necessary to do certain tasks. As
an example, task-c-dev for development in C depends on
task-devel-common, c-compiler, ... and suggests task-debug, a literate
programming tool, ....
Thus installing task-c-dev will ensure that you have all necessary
packages for compiling a C program, and will suggest others that might
be helpful.
Julian
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Julian Gilbey, Dept of Maths, QMW, Univ. of London. [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Debian GNU/Linux Developer, see http://www.debian.org/~jdg
