Re: kalyxo-office task package

Hi Liz,

On Saturday 21 February 2004 07:13, Liz Young wrote:
> Hi there,
>
> Today I put together a metapackage for (kalyxo-office) based on the
> "Workstation App list" thread in the archives, and the
> user-linux-desktop package. Plus a couple I threw in. I followed the
> Wiki page Bruce posted the other day to create the metapackage.  These

Very good work ! :-)

> are the control file dependencies:
>
> Depends: cupsys, cupsys-client, cupsomatic-ppd, gimp, gimp-data-extras,
> gimp-manual, gimp-perl, gimp-python, gimpprint-doc, gimpprint-locales,
> hylafax-client, hylafax-doc, mozilla-browser, ooqs-kde, openoffice.org,

What is ooqskde ?

> openoffice.org-mimelnk, openoffice.org-thesaurus, xpdf, smbclient,

KDE 3.2 comes with kdpf (based on xpdf), so there is no need for xpdf.

> smbfs, nfs-common, wine, wine-doc, wine-utils, winesetuptk,
> x-ttcidfont-conf, kdm, kdebase, kopete, kaddressbook, kalarm,
> kdepim-kfile-plugins, kdepim-kio-plugins, kgpgcertmanager, kmail, kfax,
> konqueror, kget, krdc, krfb, scribus, kdict, ksnapshot, kcolorchooser,
> kcontrol, kedit, kdirstat, k3b, kprinter, kooka, kmix, kscd, kmines,
> kpat, frozen-bubble :-)
May I suggest potato guy ? It's cool :-)

From KDE 3.2: Kontact. Kommander from Quanta. Quanta itself ? 
How about kplayer(mplayer) and xmms ?

> The test setup goes like this:
> - Sarge default net install (2/18/04 snapshot).  [1]
> - Reboot into base-config.
> - Edit sources.list for local apt-proxy cache (sarge/sid). [2]
> - Tasksel X Window System only.
> - Install kalyxo-office deb.  [3]
> - Debconf stuff.
> - Reboot to KDE :-)
> It takes about 35 minutes total, from booting the d-i cd to kde login.
>
> Thoughts on the process -
>
> -  Thanks to Bruce and others, building the task package is super quick.
> It was by far the easiest part of the process. So, if we want the whole
> list changed, more metapackages created, whatever, it's easy.  It's the
> install-from-scratch with each new deb that chews up time.
>
> -  I'm not that satisfied with the end result for an office/enterprise
> desktop.  For instance, I'd rather not have Exim or Mutt installed at
> all (and some others from the default Sarge install).  I tried four or
> five different builds, removing more packages each time. Finally got
> one that didn't pull any strange packages in, and seems to function
> correctly.  The new KDE3.2 menus will be a nice improvement.
>
> -  Where are we going with task packages?  Still want different Office,
> Wkstn, Devel packs?  Wait for KDE3.2 to get to sid before more testing?

KDevelop, kompare etc. are really cool stuff.

Bye
Alex
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