On Thu, Sep 14, 2000 at 11:54:57AM -0700, Erik wrote: > Well, time to learn something :) if you do apt-cache showpkg gpm, it shows > the reverse depends, and after looking at it i can see that at least in > woody, there isn't a task that installs it. > > A little more research ... apt-cache show gpm | grep ^Priority ... > > Priority: standard > > Which means that gpm will always be installed by default :) IIRC, it doesn't. People using tasksel from the installer don't go through dselect. It is dselect that auto-selects all Standard packages. There is no task that does so. Therefore, people who use tasksel end up with systems that may be missing Standard (or possibly even packages with higher priority, if they're not somewhere in the transitive dependency chain generated by the tasks they *did* select). I think this should be fixed, somehow. -- G. Branden Robinson | Men use thought only to justify their Debian GNU/Linux | wrong doings, and speech only to conceal branden@debian.org | their thoughts. http://www.debian.org/~branden/ | -- Voltaire
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