Re: Which task package installs gpm?
On Sat, 16 Sep 2000, 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
In my experience, the `simple' option will always install Important and
Required.
> *did* select).
>
> I think this should be fixed, somehow.
I'd object to it being installed by default (i.e. even if you don't select any
task package), because it's just too big (some 140 MB more than no-tasks now)
and has things many users don't even use, like a complete C and C++
development environment, emacs20 and some tetex packages.
[BTW, this is also one of my problems with dselect, but Shift-D luckily fixes
that...]
Of course it'd be fine if there existed some task-standard-system or the like,
but I wouldn't use it myself ;-)
Regards,
Anne Bezemer
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