Seth Arnold wrote: > Joey, nice work; I agree with the general gist of what you are aiming > for. When I saw the list, I thought to myself, ``this doesn't buy much > over selecting the packages by hand''.
Exactly. > However, I think we can agree that many of these packages are *useful*, > even if they shouldn't be shown at tasksel time; perhaps renaming the > cut packages to be: meta-netscape or meta-c-programming or > meta-kde-everything ... would be very handy in allowing those who like > gnome to say, ``I want gnome, but I don't want to drag KDE along with > it, and I don't know which packages make a good gnome system.'' There is nothing wrong with a package called "gnome" or "kde". Task packages should not be confused with metapackages, they are only a subset thereof. -- see shy jo
