Bug#762194: a technical proposal
On Sat, Nov 22, 2014 at 06:15:44PM +0100, Tollef Fog Heen wrote:
> > The set of packages installed by d-i / debootstrap is steered by hard-coded
> > scripts, thus new systems can default to whatever is set there.
>
> This has not been true for many years. (sarge seems to be the last one
> where it was true, and etch is the first that uses the priorities from
> the various indices.)
I wrote "scripts" not "lists of packages". The scripts do take priorities
from the "Packages" file from the chosen mirror, but that's just one of
inputs. A script lists a number of additional packages, a number of quirks,
forced ordering and so on. You can make a script do whatever you like.
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