On 13 Nov., 18:14, Nigel Kersten <ni...@puppetlabs.com> wrote:
> > I guess tasksel tasks have to be installed with exec then.
>
> I was under the impression tasksel was largely being deprecated in
> favor of meta-packages. What Debian are you on?
I never heard something like that. Do you have a source?
> I'm not sure we can easily shoe-horn tasks into the existing apt
> provider, unless we looked at tasks if a given package isn't found
> (are there any namespace collisions between tasks and packages?), but
> I reckon it's feasible to write a package provider that only used
> tasks.
There aren't any namespace conflicts.
> Would you find it acceptable to have to specify a tasksel provider
> when doing what you're trying to do?
>
> e.g.
>
> package { "gnome-desktop":
> provider => tasksel,
> ensure => installed,
> }
I would find that solution very acceptable indeed :).
Any chance a change like that would make it into Debian squeeze before
release?
MFG,
Karsten Kruse
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