Re: display managers
Branden Robinson wrote:
> Hmm. Like I said elsewhere, I'd rather not see task packages conflicting
> with each other if we can help it. But I know next to nothing about
> tasksel at the moment. I guess we need to get Randolph Chung or Joey Hess
> in on this conversation. Guys? :)
It's my opinion that task packages should not conflict. Tasks are all about
pre-selecting a set of packages for a novice and/or someone in a big hurry.
This means that they shouldn't have to pick what mail daemon or web server
or X login program they want. They merely indicate that they _do_ want some
of these things, and the tasks handle selecting a reasonable one for them.
They shouldn't run into situations where they select one task package and
another one gets unselected or there is a conflict.
I've said it before, but this is important: Tasks are probably _not_
something we developers will probably ever want to put on our own,
tightly-controlled and well-understood machines.
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