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Re: Installation report: why does it download mdetect and read-edid?



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On Friday 05 November 2004 18:58, Jerome Warnier wrote:
> I don't understand why d-i keeps downloading and installing mdetect and
> read-edid while it doesn't know if I want a GUI at all.
> Anybody can explain?

Because they need to be installed _before_ the preconfiguration scripts 
for X are run.
It doesn't matter if you don't want a GUI as both packages will be removed 
again by tasksel after installation of standard packages and selected 
tasks has finished.

Cheers,
FJP
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