On Thu, Mar 13, 2008 at 03:59:27PM -0800, Ken Irving wrote: > The search subcommand can be used to list those packages: > > aptitude search ~pstandard ~prequired ~pimportant > > though it's still not clear what is really added in this step, since > some of the packages were presumably installed during part of the > base install. I might do another install without this option and > see what the difference is... It seems to that a base install includes 'required' and 'important', while 'standard' will add packages that are considered, well, standard on a *nix system, but won't make it unusable if missing (e.g. bc, openbsd-inetd, ...) Regards, Andrei -- If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough. (Albert Einstein)
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