Re: RFC: bringing back task packages

2011-02-18 Thread Andreas Tille
[Not sure whether we should keep the long To: - list, I'd suggest continuing on debian-devel but keep it for the moment.] On Thu, Feb 17, 2011 at 07:20:30PM -0400, Joey Hess wrote: > A long time ago, tasksel installed task packages, which were regular > metapackages. This was dropped because the

Re: RFC: bringing back task packages

2011-02-18 Thread Josselin Mouette
Le jeudi 17 février 2011 à 19:20 -0400, Joey Hess a écrit : > ### gnome > > Would the gnome team want to maintain a task-gnome? > Much of tasksel's gnome task is already taken from the gnome-core > and gnome metapackages, with a few more things added. Yes, they fit globally the same purpose. Th

Re: RFC: bringing back task packages

2011-02-18 Thread Christian PERRIER
Quoting Joey Hess (jo...@debian.org): > ### i18n > > There are many language tasks in tasksel. It might be good to have > the task packages be moved out of tasksel; I don't know if it'd make > sense to have individual language teams maintain them, or what. Many teams are definitely too small to

RFC: bringing back task packages

2011-02-17 Thread Joey Hess
A long time ago, tasksel installed task packages, which were regular metapackages. This was dropped because the task packages had to Depend on many packages, which made the installed system brittle, and made testing propigation a problem. Now that Recommends are installed by default, I'm revisitin