On Wed, 29 Nov 2000, Jaume Teixi wrote: > > I'm trying to find an imap server that supports ldap > > I've seen courier and cyrus and then task-imap but...... > ......I see that task-imap depends on either (imap, cyrus-imap or > courier-imap) so really isnt' a server ? > > What exactly is for ? >
The idea of the task-* packages was that with 5,000 packages and counting Debian and its' tools such as dselect were getting to difficult to use particularly for less experienced users. How is Joe Newbie supposed to know whether to use imap, or cyrus, courier or something else. Instead by installing task-imap he can just say "give me an IMAP server" and trust Debian to install a suitable default. Which may not be perfect but good enough to get the job done. Same for task-c-dev, task-games etc. tasksel is a simple alternative to dselect which only displays the task-* packages. That was the plan. In practice, a lot of people have misunderstood the point of task packages and now they seem to be used a lot for grouping a big bunch of packages altogether so they can be installed in one go. -- Jaldhar H. Vyas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
