On Fri, 18 Aug 2000, Anthony Towns wrote: > Presumably sections and tasks will both be subsumed by this. I think > these should probably be handled differently: saying "I want the games > task" should probably default to installing all; whereas you'd probably > not want to say "I want the games section" and have all of them installed.
Well, is this really an issue? If we maintain the taks-* prefix it becomes clear to the user.. Maybe someone will want to install a full section - especially if our sections become significantly more useful! > Changing the meaning of "Section" like this is probably dependent on > getting dinstall rewritten and the archive restructured first. Hm, Possibly. I'd have to ask James of course. > > be installed. The UI tool will track when new packages are added to groups > > and present that information in conjunction with the traditional new > > packages display. > This sort of behaviour probably wouldn't be suitable for sections. Are > there any other "grouping" style things apart from sections and tasks > that we can consider? Why? Right now our sections are pretty useless because they have too wide a mismatch of things in them. But that doesn't have to remain true. > This makes the "extra" priority not really fit in though: while you can > (in theory) install all packages of any of the other priorities you > specifically *can't* do this with packages in extra. This priority is True - eliminate it would be my answer. 'extra' packages are gouped into a view by sections or by name - but not by priority. > I suspect you'd want a different interface to play with priorities than > with tasks though, too. Possibly, I don't know.. > (if you *really* group everything into just one way of doing things), > but I think this would probably require icky handling on behalf of apt > or dselect. It probably *would* make it much easier to introduce new > styles of groupings in future though. If people want to see this then internally I will convert all groupable things into whatever the internal group representation is - that makes it much, much, much simpler to deal with. It isn't so important if that is done in the archive or not. Do people like this idea? I mean - if nobody cares I'm certianly not going to spend any time on it. Jason
