Cheng H. Lee wrote: > I agree that it is a bit long; however, I think the best way to resolve this > would be to tell the user that there are more tasks listed below
people_who_have_never_run_tasksel_lately_if_at_all++; > Some of these tasks should be folded into one, e.g. the multiple KDE or GNOME > tasks; most of the key programs related to these tasks would then be installed > and the user can then trim it using apt or dselect. Other tasks, however, > shouldn't be consolidate, especially the programming stuff. I say this because > doing so would pack to many separate things into the task meta-package. For > example, if I were interested in C programming only, I would install the C > programming task package; if instead, it were folded into a single programming > task package, I would end up with a lot of stuff I don't want or need like > Python or Perl. Well fine. This is why I want to come up with a set of guidelines and put them in policy, then we can apply them to individual cases. -- see shy jo, am[ua]sed that he uses a c-style variable, not perl
