Anthony Towns wrote: > On Tue, May 08, 2001 at 03:24:33PM -0400, Joey Hess wrote: > > Anthony Towns wrote: > > > Task: headers are more akin to Section: headers than Recommends:. Both in > > > that people really ought to be able to just uninstall a package if they > > > don't like it, and in that the complexity of dependency specifications > > > just isn't warranted. > > Have you thought at all about renaming Task: to Enhances:? > > Using a dependency field for this would mean you couldn't create a new task > without NMUing every package you intend to put in that task.
If we're intending to use a small number of tasks, then that should not be a big deal, since new task creation would be rare. Also, it's surely possible to make whatever Packages file creation overrides mechanism is developed just _add_ the task packages to existing Enhances fields, preserving whatever else might be there. -- see shy jo
