Hi Emmanuel, > Thanks for your interest for the Vagrant boxes. > > The packages you mentioned are of priority 'optional', and were only in > up to now installed becaused of transitive dependecy via 'recommends'. > See the debian policy for the meanings of these/ > Since 'recommends' pulled too much X11 client libraries, we decided not > installed 'recommended' packages. On second thought I agree this is > debattable, since it makes us deviate from a standard debian install. > > Until we we have build different kind of images with different packages > set priority, there will be always a bit too much or a bit too less. > > NB: we release each new boxes version with changelog at > https://atlas.hashicorp.com/debian/boxes/jessie64 > > ( I agree the atlas interface makes the reading confusing ) Thanks for your quick reply. As these boxes are primarily used (by me and many others I bet) for development purposes, it's quite essential ca-certificates is present. lsb-release is necessary for Puppet's facts gathering tool and I imagine Ansible uses it as well. Is it an idea to add these packages manually back into the image? Kind regards, Rick van den Hof
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