On Tue, Jun 19, 2001 at 12:10:20AM +0530, Rajkumar S. wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> What are tasks. I found that their are a lot of tasks when I do a
> apt-cache search task. I tried installing task-harden on a spare machine
> but did not see any thing happening (ie new packages etc...)
>
> Can some one tell me why tasks are used?
it's a quickie way to install lots of related things at once.
look at the "depends:" field of any "apt-cache show task-ZZZZ"
to see how it works. install just one "task-*" instead of all
those separate packages...
"tasksel" is one way to peruse what the task-* packages do.
apt-get install tasksel
tasksel
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