Interesting timimg :) I finally got a go-ahead from the previous task-science maintainer to adopt his package, which I found muddled (and buggy where it intersected with some of my packages). I posted a suggestion for a new one to d-devel last night, and so far only heard "break it up further into task-numerical-analyis and task-data-analysis".
I'm of a divided opinion. I think Joey is right in limiting tasksel at its most basic level to just one "screen" (mind you that could be 60 odd rows these days :) though we should limit it to 20), but I also see good reasons to offer more granularity for those who can deal with it. Think of it as "novice" and "intermediate". As a crude hack, couldn't we define tasksel to do the following - accept task packages matching task-(.*)(-.*)? (in Perl regexp) - in novice mode, only show up to level task-(.*) and have $1 define the groupings, eg task-programming, task-webserver, ... - in intermediate mode, go to level $1 and $2 and show eg "C Programming" based on task-programming-c, "C++ Programming" based on task-programming-c++ etc How does that sound? The fact remains that we have a _vast_ number of packages so that we probably need to define several "viewing modes" for them. Dirk -- Three out of two people have difficulties with fractions.
