On Mon, May 07, 2001 at 11:42:49AM -0400, Mark Eichin wrote: > err, does this break the use of tasks with apt-get later on? I've > found it very useful to do (for example) "apt-get install > task-x-window-system" > after getting a machine otherwise working (in particular, that's the > easy way to go to xf4 - install 2.2, then point to testing, then > apt-get install task-x-window-system which pulls in the right things from > testing...)
My thought was that apt and dselect would be taught to recognise Tasks: as a new type of dependency header, similar to Depends, Recommends and Suggests, but with slightly different rules. Julian -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Julian Gilbey, Dept of Maths, Queen Mary, Univ. of London Debian GNU/Linux Developer, see http://people.debian.org/~jdg Donate free food to the world's hungry: see http://www.thehungersite.com/