tasksel and standard packages (was Re: Which task package installs gpm?)
On Sat, Sep 16, 2000 at 03:43:42PM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote:
> 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.
How about making tasksel do this? Any opinions?
Dan
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