Maintaining tasks files

[Jonas Smedegaard]

On Wed, Aug 18, 2010 at 09:50:01PM +0200, Reinhard Tartler wrote:
>On Tue, Aug 17, 2010 at 19:04:41 (CEST), Andreas Tille wrote:
>
>> On Tue, Aug 17, 2010 at 06:29:11PM +0200, Reinhard Tartler wrote:
>>> > is fullfilled if only one of them is installed as well as if you 
>>> > can also use
>>> >
>>> >    Suggests: <not so important package>
>>> >
>>> > which IMHO are two important advantages over the tasksel approach.
>>>
>>> At what time are these metapackages used/installed? After tasksel in 
>>> the installer?  Instead of tasksel?
>>
>> I tried to enable selection of Blends tasks immediately after
>> installation (see bug #186085) but failed.  So for the moment
>> you just install the metapackages as any other package with
>> your favourite package management tool.
>
>Mmh, it seems that everyone agrees that Blends (it was called CCDs at 
>that time) should provide their specialized installation media, and I'd 
>agree.

It was not called CCD but CDD: Custom Debian Distribution


>But if we have such an installation media, the whole concept of 
>metapackages feels strange to me. At installation time, we have much 
>more control about what is installed anyways.

The common development proces in Debian rarely focus on a larger range 
of packages working together, but mostly on either single/few packages 
at a time or everything.

The proces of composing Debian Pure Blends helps here.  Ideally it 
should not matter if in the end you install your "Blend" using a 
standard Debian DVD or a custom rolled out USB memory stick - the 
experience of an integrated effort should be similar.


So when you ask specifically "is it a custom CD?" or the opposite "is it 
not a custom CD but 'just' a task in standard tasksel of the Debian DVD" 
then the answer is the same: "yes, it can be that".


Try read the responses from Andreas again in that light - I suspect it 
will then make more sense :-)


  - Jonas

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