Bug#825186: Please which tasks should be installed at a default installation of the blend

[IOhannes m zmölnig (Debian/GNU)]

On 05/27/2016 10:06 PM, Ross Gammon wrote:
> Maybe we just install the lot (except devel) for Stretch, and aim for
> a more fine-grained method for Buster?

so it seems like you went for that option.
that's certainly the easiest route from *our* perspective.

>
> To expand on your last sentence, maybe we need to have
> audio-workstation, video-workstation etc. tasks with a default (and
> smaller) selection of useful packages? Then a nice way of installing
> more, or all packages from a metapackage later.
> 

yes, i think something like that would create a better user-experience.

i think most (all?) tasks we currently have, aggregate packages with
similar functionality (e.g. installing "recording" will give you
virtually all debian packages that can record media content); however i
believe that in practice, people will only need a single package that
does the job (e.g. i want to record audio - give me any package from
"recording" but not all of them).

so the idea i tried to express in my last email was to basically create
a *new* task "multimedia-minimal" (or "multimedia-handpicked" or
whatever), that contains a selection of packages for various tasks, but
probably no more than 2 packages for any specific task.

but of course this requires a lot more work (and as of know, it's mainly
ross who maintains the multimedia-tasks).

related but not the same issue: i wonder whether it is possible to stack
tasks (e.g. have a "csound", "puredata" and "supercollider" tasks, and
then have a single "computermusic-languages" task that just depends on
the sub-tasks).

gfnsd
IOhannes

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