Defining interesting multimedia tasks

[Jonas Smedegaard]

On Wed, Aug 18, 2010 at 04:18:32PM -0400, Felipe Sateler wrote:
>On 18/08/10 15:57, Reinhard Tartler wrote:
>> But what we could do is to identify user tasks. Then, instead of 
>> providing metapackages or tasksel files, we list all applications in 
>> debian that can fulfill the purpose of that task, and give 
>> recommendations for the 'best' application in that task.
>
>Well (as I have said a few times), I'm mostly interested in the nice 
>pages generated by the blends web sentinel. If we manage to get 
>reasonable tasks, the pages can serve as recommendations for that task.
>
>>
>> The first idea is probably implemented most easily with debtags, 
>> while for the second we could consider popcon data.
>
>This is an interesting approach... but we loose the nice webpages (we 
>would have to recreate them).

I agree with Reinhart - and have tried selling debtags to Andreas before 
(but without backing it with code, so my argument was weak!).

Debtags need not be double work:

If we express "Multimedia" through facets in debtags, and tell Andreas 
the debtags commands to extract each of the "flavors" in our "Blend", 
then I am sure he will integrate debtags support for generation of those 
nice webpages - for the benefit of *all* Blends.



  - Jonas

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