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Bug#272406: Base-config installs way to many packages



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.

-- 
see shy jo

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