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   [ Petter Reinholdtsen ]
   * common task:
     - Depend on psmisc, to have fuser available on all hosts.
     - Depend on mii-diag, similar to ethtool.  Found in edubuntu.
     - Depend on libpam-ssh to activate ssh-agent automatically at
       login time if the ssh key have the same password as the user
       login.
     - Depend on lsscsi to make it easier to administrate machines with
       SCSI devices.
     - Recommend libpam-tmpdir, as it seem useful to include in default
       installations.
     - Suggest libpam-devperm, might be an alternative to grant access
       to sound and CDROM devices.
     - Recommend nvram-wakeup for specifying boot times on clients.
     - Add dash, to avoid a few problems and speed up the system.
     - Suggest etherreal, an invaluable network debugging tool.
   * networked task:
     - Depend on hpijs-ppds alongside hpijs.  Found in edubuntu.
     - Suggest sitesummary-client to make it easier to keep track of the hosts.
   * laptop task:
     - Recommend bluez-cups, bluez-pin, bluez-utils to have bluetooth
       support included.  Found in edubuntu.
     - Depend on laptop-mode-tools, found in edubuntu.
     - Add missing backslash, making sure some important packages make it
       into the CD.
   * main-server task:
     - Recommend italc, schooltool and schoolbell.  These tools are
       useful for administrating a school.
     - Reduce depends to recommends for recently introduced cipux
       packages.  We need to decide what to drop from the first CD
       before adding more depends.
     - Suggest sitesummary to make it easier to keep track of the hosts.
   * thin-client-server task:
     - Suggest ltsp-utils.  It is useful in some installations.
   * standalone task:
     - Recommend abakus, a nice calculator.
     - Prioritize xsane over sane.
     - Group all spellcheckers and give them priority after sane.
       Reduce ispell dictionaries to suggests, and list myspell
       dictionaries used by OOo to depends and recommends.
     - Reduce quanta priority below sane and spell checkers, and make
       it a recommends.
     - Recommend all gcompris sound packages in etch.
     - Recommend f-spot for photo management.  Found in edubuntu.
     - Recommend ekiga as a VoIP client.  Found in edubuntu.
     - Recommend gaim as chat/im client.  Found in edubuntu.
     - Add section for a package manager, and depend on synaptic.
       Suggest kpackage for now.  Suggest adept, it might be better than
       synaptic for KDE.
     - Recommend some GUI applications found in edubuntu: ktuberling,
       nautilus, evolution, serpentine, scribus, tuxmath and tuxpaint.
     - Suggest some text applications found in edubuntu: mutt, screen
     - Replace dhcp-client with dhcp3-client, to get the latest and
       greatest.
     - Reduce 'drgeo|drgenius' to recommends.  It has 1.1% users
       according to popcon, and is missing in edubuntu.
     - Recommed k3b-i18n next to k3b, to make sure it is translated.
     - Recommend kolourpaint.  popcon reports more users than kpaint.
   * desktop-kde task:
     - Reduce kdewallpapers to recommends.  It should be enough with
       one included by default, in debian-edu-artwork.
     - Reduce kedit to recommends.  kate includes both kate and kwrite,
       and two editors should be enough.
     - Add kdeutils as a recommended package.
     - Reduce kpm to suggests.  It does not exist in etch.
     - Moved kpackage to standalone task.
     - Depend on kdemultimedia-kio-plugins to allow audio CDs to be browsed
       using konqueror.
     - Depend on kdeadmin-kfile-plugins, kdegraphics-kfile-plugins and
       kdemultimedia-kio-plugins, to get konqueror to show meta
       information for deb/rpms, images and audio files.
     - Recommend kdenetwork-kfile-plugins, to improve bittorrent
       handling in konqueror.
     - Recommend kamera, to allow direct access to digital cameras
       using konqueror.
     - Recommend kdeaccessibility, to make it easier for people with
       disabilities.
     - Recommend kpilot, adding support for synchronizing with PDAs.
     - Suggest kdepim-kfile-plugins and kdeaddons-kfile-plugins, giving
       konqueror some extra support features.
   * desktop-other task:
     - Move scribus to standalone task.
   * Add links to the kubuntu and edubuntu task lists in the README.
   [ Xavier Oswald ]
   * main-server task:
     - Depend on moodle-debian-edu-theme, moodle-cipux, cipux-all
     - Recommend moodle-courses-fr, debian-edu-fr-all, debian-edu-fr-skels.
       These packages contain French data so they are reduce to recommend.
     - Depend on cipux-common, cipux-cibot, cipux-cat-webmin, cipux-rpc,
       cipux-profile. These packages come from the cipux repository.