On Thu, 5 Apr 2001, Ivan E. Moore II wrote: <...> > The task packages are a poor hack to solve a problem. They don't work > properly and are a big waste of space. the Packages file is big enough as > it is then to add versions to every package that task-kde depends on?
<shrug> I would not notice another K or two (hundred, even). > > I realize this kind of behaviour would only be useful (visible) to > > unstable users... but isn't that where it is needed (so one can track > > unstable-KDE without tracking all of unstable), and wouldn't that > > result in more potential beta testers for the packages (by virtue of > > lowering the bar to tracking unstable-KDE). > > I understand your needs...however I'm not looking at task-kde being a solution > for upgrades as it's just not going to work that way and I'm not going to > spend the time needed and take the heet from other developers just to take > care of this. I'm focusing on release and getting everything to a point where > a new users can do a apt-get install task-kde or use tasksel and install a > stock system with kde. Ok. Thanks for your time, Ivan. I guess I'll need to look at writing an "upgrade-task" prog that tries to install everything a task depends on (and recommends or suggests items if they are already installed). - Bruce
