Joey Hess <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Andrew Pollock wrote: >> Can you please elaborate? I've just read the README file, and I'm not a lot >> wiser as to why the tex packages don't fit the policy? >> >> I'd like a task for installing latex related stuff. > > I suspect that less than 25% of our users use tex. It could conceivably > fail the requirement that 90% of our users know what the task is from > its short description.
I generally question those criteria, I think I have written about this in a different mail. > Moreover, "tex" is not really a task. > "typesetting" or "word processing" or the like would be, but these and > the desktop task would have significant overlap, which I prefer to > avoid. TeX is for sure *not* word processing, because the latter is what people do with a word processor program, like Openoffice. I think something like "text processing and typesetting" could be a useful task, with sgml tools, docbook, makeinfo etc. But that's a different thing, and I won't work on this. > tex is also not appropriate to be in a task because anyone who wants tex > knows they want tex, and does not want to bumble around selecting > ill-defined tasks (like "word processing") and hope that they get tex. > Instead, they want to manually select their packages, and I expect them > to do so. Tasks are for people who know what task they want to do, but > are not very picky about the tools the system chooses to do it. This is not what I learned tasksel to be, as a user years ago. However, I have no good suggestion regarding TeX. Perhaps a meta-package is more appropriate; however I am not sure what should be in it. Although I question the usefulness of the criteria you use for tasksel (or of a tasksel using those criteria), I don't mind very much, and I will accept this as it is. Maybe sometime a meta package comes about. For me, I would close this bug - however, since other people took part in the discussion, I will wait a couple of days. Regards, Frank -- Frank K�ster, Biozentrum der Univ. Basel Abt. Biophysikalische Chemie
