Ubuntu Server 7.10 Beta is looking for testers

Jamie Strandboge jamie at strandboge.com
Fri Sep 28 10:46:57 UTC 2007


On Fri, 2007-09-28 at 10:49 +0200, Nicolas Barcet wrote:
> If the install was done through tasksel, I would expect everything to be
>  working by default, not have the user fiddle around conf file to start
> the thing.
> 
> If the install is done through plain apt, it makes sense to have
> protocol = none.

tasksel does not provide a separate configuration mechanism.  It simply
is a way to install a group of packages (not unlike meta packages in
this regard).  To do what you suggested, a separate configuration
package would have to be created, which tasksel would pull in along with
the others.

Jamie

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