On Sat, Feb 07, 2004 at 07:29:16PM +0100, Jérôme Marant wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Denis Barbier) writes: > > > >> You need to remove those packages. They are not part of main (Debian, that > >> is) > >> so tasksel cannot support them. > > > > Found in tasksel/tasks/README: > > Note that while you may put non-free or contrib packages in tasks, they > > will not propagate out to the Task fields in the Packages files in the > > Debian archive. > > Since tasksel is mainly used for the debian-installer, I don't > see the point in adding non-free entries into it, since we > don't ship them.
I for one ran tasksel more than once in the past, and would be very surprised if it is seldom used outside of d-i. Moreover who said that tasksel was the only program reading these informations? Aptitude at least uses these fields. Denis
