[proposal] Simplified junior tags & debtags-based replacement for metapackages

[Free Ekanayaka]

|--==> Benjamin Mesing writes:

  BM> On Tue, 2006-03-28 at 13:16 +0200, Free Ekanayaka wrote:
  >>|--==> Jeroen van Wolffelaar writes:
  >>
  JvW> On Sun, Mar 26, 2006 at 01:42:51PM +0200, Enrico Zini wrote:
  >>>>There!  Suite is a *great* idea!
  >>
  JvW> 'suite' is also used in dak to mean 'stable', 'testing', 'unstable' etc.
  JvW> Those are 'suites'.
  >>
  JvW> Not that this means you shouldn't use 'suite', but it is a terminology
  JvW> clash.
  >>
  >>I thought the same. What about 'task'? It would be consistent with the
  >>way Debian has historically  handled and named collections of packages
  >>(with tasksel).  Not a big  deal though, I  really like how things are
  >>evolving here!

  BM> Well, but things like Openoffice, KDE, Gnome, etc. (which are currently
  BM> in suite:: ) are no tasks, so this would mean to introduce a new
  BM> category - which is not a problem by itself. I think suite is fitting
  BM> though - task is somewhat misleading. A CDD is not necessarily related
  BM> to a task. For me, task would mean something like use::

Definitely I agree, I also think "suite" suites (:)) more than "task",
but  the clash with  dak terminology still  holds. Maybe explaining in
some  document the  difference of  the  two uses of   "suite" would be
enough to avoid confusion.

Free