tasks

[Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>]

If you run 'tasksel', you can see the set of task packages that currently
exist in unstable (list below -- note that tasksel munges the names a bit,
and I am doing the same munging throughout this message). Martin's original
design called for a lot more tasks than this, see
http://www.debian.org/~martinb/tasks/

When are all those additional task packages going to be made? The ones
Martin specced out that do not yet exist are:

Admin
Backup Net
Backup
Basic
Database Pg
Debian Dev
Dns
Doc
Ftp
Graphics
Gui Dev
High Rel
Imap
Lisp Dev
Mailinglist
Net Complete
Net Selected
Net Admin
News Server
Nis
Perl
Plot
Pop
Prod
Python
Scheme
Science
Sound
Webcache
Webserver apache
Webserver roxen
Standard
Workstation
X Complete

Existing tasks:

C++ Dev                  Metapackage for development in C++
C Dev                    Metapackage for development in C
Chinese S                Simplified Chinese environment
Chinese T                Traditional Chinese environment
Debug                    metapackage for debugging of C, C++, Objecti
Devel Common             Metapackage for development in various langu
Dialup                   Dialup utilities
Dialup Isdn              Dialup utilities
Fortran                  Fortran development environment
Games                    A selection of games
German                   German-speaking environment
Gnome Apps               GNOME applications and utilities
Gnome Desktop            GNOME basic desktop
Gnome Games              GNOME games
Gnome Net                GNOME network applications
Japanese                 Japanese-speaking environment
Laptop                   A selection of tools for laptop users
Newbie Help              New user documentation
Objc Dev                 Metapackage for development in Objective C
Parallel Computing Dev   Packages for development of parallel computi
Parallel Computing Node  Libraries for parallel computing application
Polish                   Polish-speaking environment
Samba                    Samba SMB server
Sgml                     metapackage for Debian SGML and XML editing
Sgml Dev                 metapackage for Debian SGML and XML develope
Tcltk                    Metapackage for running Tcl/Tk applications.
Tcltk Dev                Metapackage for developing Tcl/Tk applicatio
Tex                      TeX/LaTeX environment 
X Window System          X Window System core components

I also think that the task short descriptions should not bother to say they
are metapackages -- this is going to be clear from context one way or other.
Unless people disagree, I want to file bugs on the tasks above that have
"metapackage" in their short description. This will have a side effect of
making all existing short descriptions actually fit in tasksel w/o being
truncated.

-- 
see shy jo