On Sun, Sep 19, 2004 at 06:12:31PM -0400, Joey Hess wrote: > Frans Pop wrote: > > I did a testinstall for unstable using i386 netboot. > > During tasksel I selected 'manual package selection'. In aptitude I was > > presented with a list of packages that would be installed (I presume > > packages that had been selected by default). > Note that this is a behavior change due to aptitude just being fixed in > unstable to install standard priority packages by default again, after > not doing that for some while. > > These included: > > - lib64gcc1, lib64stdc++6, amd64-libs (11MB!) > > I don't have a 64-bit system, and I don't have an amd processor, so I > > really don't want these installed. > > - libdb2, libdb4.0, libdb4.1 > > Of which only libdb4.1 is needed (by vacation). > > Note that libdb3 and libdb4.2 have already been installed during > > base-installation because op dependencies. > > - libcrypt7, libcrypt1, libcrypt11 > > libgnutils7, libgnutils10, libgnutils11 > > Of these only the '11' variants are needed by other packages. > > - Of the compiler-related packages, both version 3.3 and 3.4 were installed. > The only way to change this is either to re-break aptitude, to not let > the new aptitude into testing (but it fixes other RC bugs, and not > installing all of standard is bad), or to talk to the ftp masters and > get the overrides files fixed so this stuff is not in standard. FWIW, amd64-libs is being pulled in by lib64gcc1, which is not yet present in testing (from a new version of gcc-3.4). These packages, at least, won't be pulled in by default on a sarge install, even with an updated aptitude. -- Steve Langasek postmodern programmer
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