Re: Install Report (b-f 2.3.6 i386; floppy/net; standard)
Anthony Towns wrote:
> (-testing cc dropped)
>
> On Sun, Jun 24, 2001 at 03:57:45PM -0400, Joey Hess wrote:
> > > and setting my proxy worked pretty well. There are a few things that are
> > > standard that probably shouldn't be: gcc-3.0, nfs-kernel-server, xlib6g,
> > > the debconf/stool stuff, vacation and rblcheck all seem a bit unnecessary.
> > Eh? libterm-stool-perl is in optional.
>
> debconf Recommends: it, so dselect pulls it in.
Blech. That reccommends shouldn't be there and will be dropped to
suggests.
> > > I didn't get most/any of base dpkg-reconfigured.
> > Yeah, we've been talking about this with regards to mta's and man-db and
> > such (anything else you missed having reconfigured?) and it's really
> > seeming easier to not have debootstrap install them, and just let
> > tasksel select them and have them installed normally.
>
> Uh. Not having base be interactively configured ever seems kinda
> spooky. Especially if you want to get stuff out of base-config.deb at
> some point.
I think you must misunderstand. Selected parts of base are certianly
reconfigured. console-data, passwd, etc. The whole thing is not.
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