live-build: what do live-task-* do?
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Hans@21:1/5 to
All on Fri May 24 18:00:01 2024
Hello everyone,
I am playing around with live-build. So I see several packages
called "live-task-*" (for example live-task-xfce), but I can not see any changes in the live-build tree, when I install them or not.
Checked through the manuals, but I found no information, what I have to do
with it. Yes, live-task-xfce shall add XFCE to the live-build ISO, but I can not see any difference by adding just the entry "live-task-xfce" into the file "live.list.chroot" below ~/config/package.list and installing the package.
What did I miss? Yes, I see, these are metapackages and want to install more packages (what I really NOT want on my building computer).
The logic of this behaviour is not quite clear for me. I suppose, it shall
show me and let me test, which packages are installed into the live-ISO.
But if I do not want them on my building computer, I just need to add the
entry into ~/config/package.list/live.list.chroot and it will work.
Am I correct?
Personally I think this is not a good way, as installing a package
like task-live-xfce will install all xfce-packages,too. No good idea for several reasons. But someone might have good reasons for this.
Whatever, the question is: What are these live-task-packages for and how shall they be handled correctly?
Thank you for enlightening me!
Best regards
Hans
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