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

[Ross Gammon]

Hi IOhannes,

Thanks very much for much for helping to take care of the blends. It is
very much appreciated. I have been a little busy over the European summer.

On 06/06/2016 03:19 PM, IOhannes m zmölnig (Debian/GNU) wrote:
> 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.

Yes - I thought it was worth getting something into the installer for
the alpha releases, so people can have a play. There is still time to do
something more fine-grained.

>> 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).

Yes - it just remains to select those packages. I would like to have a
multimedia-minimal package that just has 10 or so essential packages to
get started with audio/music creation or video creation/editing. Or
maybe separate audio-minimal and video-minimal packages, so that they
can be recommended by the audio & video tasks.

I will make a suggestion on a new thread.


> 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).

I spotted that you went forward with this suggestion (or something based
on it). Excellent! I almost did something like that, but I wasn't sure
of the categorisations (and couldn't think of a good name for the
umbrella task), and never got around to asking on the list.

By the way, feel free to do an upload of this latest Blend status (if
you have a spare timeslot). It will need to pass through the NEW queue.

Cheers,

Ross

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