Re: [VA-Debian] Comments from a first-time Debian install.....
Joey Hess <joey@valinux.com> writes:
> Adam Di Carlo wrote:
> > Ted recommended that one of the tasks be made to represent the
> > standard packages. I think this is a very good idea. Let it be
> > checked by default.
>
> I think there are two problems:
>
> 1. How do we get this package; must it be rebuilt every time a package
> is added/removed from standard? It would need to keep track of
> differences accross architectures too.
No -- I'm not saying that we create a new task package. I am merely
saying that tasksel should have a selectable item on the list which is
*not* from a task package, representing the packages at the standard
priority.
> 2. Making it be selected by default in tasksel is not surrently
> supported. It occurs to me though that tasksel could look at package
> status and mark all tasks that are installed or are marked for install.
> Then base-config could just
> 'echo task-standard install | dpkg --set-selections' before running
> tasksel.
See above. It's not literally a package.
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.....Adam Di Carlo....adam@onShore.com.....<URL:http://www.onShore.com/>
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