Re: tasksel and standard packages (was Re: Which task package installs gpm?)

[Randolph Chung <tausq@debian.org>]

> > 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?

depends on what you mean by "fix"

samwise[23:41] tasksel% ./tasksel -h 2>&1 | grep standard
        -s -- install all standard-priority packages

this has been in there for some time. 

randolph
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