Comment 14 for bug 61684
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| Matt Zimmerman (mdz) wrote Re: [Bug 61684] Re: Removing any u-desktop depdencency marks all other packages for auto-removal (on alternate install) | #14 |
On Mon, Oct 09, 2006 at 09:23:51PM -0000, Colin Watson wrote:
> Michael and I talked about this on IRC, and it seemed that changing
> tasksel to use apt-get would be the path of least resistance for now.
>
> However, I just had a look at tasksel and I can only do this by dropping
> a feature (installation by priority). That may not matter too much in
> the Ubuntu case, but if I can avoid dropping features then that would be
> preferable - so if fixing aptitude so that its task installation plays
> well with apt's auto-marking is easy, then that would be best.
Has this issue been properly fixed for the desktop CD yet? That needs to be
done, replacing the livefs.sh workaround.
I don't mind if we drop the priority feature; the metapackages provide a
similar level of granularity, so if that's the simplest, safest solution, I
prefer it.
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- mdz