Hi Holger, at first I'd like to thank you for all your work.
I'd also like to stress that due to my other tasks I'm not regularly reading this list - feel free to ping me more hardly than in simple list replies. Am Fri, Mar 07, 2025 at 11:04:35PM +0100 schrieb Holger Wansing: > > [email protected] wrote at Sat, 29 Jul 2023: > > Package: tasksel > > Version: 3.73 > > > > There are tasksel tasks that > > 1. The command "tasksel --list-tasks" does not list. > > 2. They do not show either in the task description file > > "/usr/share/tasksel/descs/debian-tasks.desc" > > > > Some examples are the tasks "science-tasks", "electronic-tasks", > > "education-tasks", and quite a few more: > > https://packages.debian.org/search?suite=bookworm§ion=all&arch=any&searchon=all&keywords=tasksel > > https://packages.debian.org/search?suite=bookworm§ion=all&arch=any&searchon=names&keywords=live-task- > > > > Despite all this, tasksel can actually install them: for instance, "tasksel > > -t install science-tasks". > > [ Adding debian-blends mailinglist to the loop ] > > > The first packages.d.o link from above lists these packages (amongst others): > > pan-tasks: PAN Blends tasks for tasksel > > electronics-tasks: Debian Electronics tasks for tasksel > > science-tasks: Debian Science tasks for tasksel > > multimedia-tasks: Debian Multimedia tasks for tasksel > > junior-tasks: Debian Jr. tasks for tasksel > > games-tasks: Debian Games tasks for tasksel > > debichem-tasks: DebiChem tasks for tasksel > > gis-tasks: Debian GIS tasks for tasksel > > med-tasks: Debian Med tasks for tasksel > > education-tasks: Debian Edu tasks for tasksel > > fbx-tasks: FreedomBox tasks for tasksel > > astro-tasks: Debian Astronomy Pure Blend (tasksel tasks) > > hamradio-tasks: Debian Hamradio Tasks > > blends-tasks: Debian Pure Blends tasks for new installations I think the last one does not really fit into that list. All others are providing tasksel support for the according blend > These look to me as an early attempt, to allow blends installation from > our debian-installer (via tasksel). Is this correct? I do not think that the initial idea was debian-installer support. However, it might be perfectly usalbe for this as well. > Since there is a (new) working mechanism for this approach now (via > blendsel [1]), the above packages might be no longer needed? > > Or are they still used? I *personally* do not use these. Unfortunately we can't really know since we have no direct from our users. Do you think these packages are creating any harm if these are just available? > In every case, this approach now might be irritating, since it is based > on tasksel, while the new mechanism works via the new blendsel (so > completely independent from tasksel) ... That's a valid point, thought, > I was not aware of these packages, when I developed blendsel, BTW. Do you have any suggestion what should be changed? Kind regards Andreas. > [1] https://lists.debian.org/debian-blends/2025/01/msg00000.html -- https://fam-tille.de
