Re: RFC: bringing back task packages

2011-02-18 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Fri, Feb 18, 2011 at 10:51:05AM +0100, Adam Borowski a écrit : > > On the contrary, I don't see what an input system would be good for. How > many languages can you write? The one from the country where I was born, and the one from the country that was kind enough to give me a work visa :) >

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 Holger Levsen
Hi, On Freitag, 18. Februar 2011, Charles Plessy wrote: > it would be very exciting to have the possibility to select a blend at the > installation. To circumvent the limitation of space, how about having a > single line to select ‘Chose a Debian Pure Blend‘, that would lead to a > page that provi

Re: RFC: bringing back task packages

2011-02-18 Thread Adam Borowski
On Fri, Feb 18, 2011 at 10:39:16AM +0900, Charles Plessy wrote: > > ### 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. > >

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

Re: RFC: bringing back task packages

2011-02-17 Thread Paul Wise
On Fri, Feb 18, 2011 at 9:39 AM, Charles Plessy wrote: > it would be very exciting to have the possibility to select a blend at the > installation. To circumvent the limitation of space, how about having a single > line to select ‘Chose a Debian Pure Blend‘, that would lead to a page that > provi

Re: RFC: bringing back task packages

2011-02-17 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Thu, Feb 17, 2011 at 07:20:30PM -0400, Joey Hess a écrit : > > ### blends > > I think there is interest in getting some blends displayed in Taskel? > It's mostly orthagonal to this proposal, but this would help with > giving you full control over what your tasks do. I do feel that blends > nee

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