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Title: What Are Task-* Packages For?
Post by: crow on January 24, 2006, 03:01:50 pm

Does anyone know what the task-* packages are used for?  I wanted to remove openswan but package manager complains that task-bootstrap depends on it.  I don't want to break anything so I didn't remove openswan.  But it seems pretty strange that it can be removed so easily.

Title: What Are Task-* Packages For?
Post by: obergix on January 24, 2006, 04:00:19 pm

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Does anyone know what the task-* packages are used for? 
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They are "meta" packages which are only there to enforce installation of related applications on which they depend. But they don't provide in themselves any programs.
Just a way to warn users against removing necessary base programs, for instance