On Sun, Feb 08, 2004 at 10:44:18AM +0100, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: > On Sat, Feb 07, 2004 at 05:22:34PM +0100, Jérôme Marant wrote: > > You need to remove those packages. They are not part of main (Debian, that > > is) > > so tasksel cannot support them. > > What happens if a package mentioned in a task is not available? Does an > error will be raised or not?
No, it is simply not installed. > If not we can just list the packages in the task, if the user had > chosen to have also non-free entries in its sources.list then it will > get ocaml-book and ocaml-doc, otherwise he wont. > > In this way we wont "promote non-free software", but simply give some > additional selection to people that had already chosen to use non-free > packages. After a second look, it does not seem to work, because the Task field is not propagated into the Packages file for non-free programs. So adding non-free packages is currently a no-op. Denis
