On Tue, Feb 13, 2007 at 12:02:03AM -0300, Lisandro Damián Nicanor Pérez Meyer wrote: > El Lunes 12 Febrero 2007 23:49, Damián Viano escribió: > > I think a tasksel task would also be very reasonable approach here, > > and, maybe be easier to maintain than a meta-package? > > > > It would also be nice since is quite a specific task and one would be > > prompted during d-i which would pretty much make Debian science-ready > > out of the box. > > Complicated to do? I _never_ did something related to debian packages, but > perhaps it's a good time to start :-)
Not really, /usr/share/doc/tasksel/README.gz should explain everything needed. I see two options: we could start with a simple list of packages or an automatic way, such as a script consulting debtags info. I think that's a good start and maybe afterwards we could move to file wishlist bugs to the listed packages to add a Task: science to their control and eventually use the more automated task-fields. I'm not sure if/why this approach would be better but seems to be the most used, by far. I guess a meta-package wouldn't be much more work either but maybe more hassle to maintain than a simple .desc file (don't know how hard would it be with cdd-dev, as Andreas suggested). -- Damián Viano(Des) ¯ ¯ - _ _ - ¯ ¯ GPG: 0x6EB95A6F Debian ¯-_GNU_-¯ Linux Web: http://damianv.com.ar/ ¯-¯ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
