Another thing that I think is important is that a task should actually have the effect of installing a multitude of packages. If it doesn't, you gain nothing over selecting packages by hand.
On Wed, Dec 06, 2000 at 09:28:23PM -0800, Joey Hess wrote: > The resulting list would look something like: > > x [ ] Imap IMAP Server > ax $ apt-cache show task-imap ... Depends: uw-imapd | imap-server > x [ ] News Server USENET News Server > ax $ apt-cache show task-news-server ... Depends: inn2 These two packages in particular look pretty bougs, and there are several others that are questionable, installing only 3-5 packages.
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