Re: package pre-selections tool

["James R. Van Zandt" <jrv@vanzandt.mv.com>]

Here are three package selections to start things off.  They are based
on the package priorities: The first includes only "base", the second
adds "important", and the third adds "standard".  The only real oddity
is that gcc and cpp are among "base".  Is this only because dpkg needs
it, to get the current architecture?  Otherwise, it might better be
moved into "standard" with the rest of the development tools.

Here are statistics on the three collections:

select-base.gz        42532 KB  main=74  contrib=0  non-free=0
select-important.gz   49710 KB  main=91  contrib=0  non-free=0
select-standard.gz   125344 KB  main=143  contrib=0  non-free=0

None have any packages from "contrib" or "non-free".  

The difference in size between the first two is small, and I think the
added packages (including nvi and cpio) are important enough that we
should not bother with "base".

I am attaching the list of packages.  I'll mail the
(gzipped/uuencoded) selection files directly to Enrique Zanardi.

                                - Jim Van Zandt

-----  "base"  -------
adduser
ae
base-files
base-passwd
bash
binutils
bsdmainutils
bsdutils
comerr2g
cpp
data-dumper
debianutils
dialog
diff
dpkg
dpkg-ftp
e2fslibsg
e2fsprogs
fdflush
fileutils
findutils
gcc
grep
gzip
hostname
kbd
kernel-headers-2.0.32
ldso
libc5
libc6
libc6-dev
libg++272
libgdbmg1
libjpegg6a
libnet-perl
libreadlineg2
lilo
login
makedev
mawk
mbr
menu
mime-support
modconf
modutils
motifnls
mount
ncurses-base
ncurses-bin
ncurses3.4
newt0.21
passwd
perl
perl-base
procps
psmisc
sed
setserial
shellutils
slang0.99.38
ss2g
sysklogd
syslinux
sysvinit
tar
textutils
timezones
update
util-linux
whiptail
xlib6
xlib6g
xpm4.7
xpm4g
-----  "important" also has the following: -----
at
bc
cpio
cron
dc
dpkg-dev
ed
groff
info
libdb2
mailx
make
man-db
manpages
nvi
patch
smail
------  "standard" also has the following:  ------
biff
bin86
bison
cvs
debian-policy
dnsutils
doc-debian
doc-linux
doc-linux-text
dpkg-perl
electric-fence
elm-me+
emacs20
emacsen-common
file
flex
gdb
gpm
iamerican
ispell
less
libg++272-dev
liblockfile0
libpam0g
libpam0g-util
libpwdb0g
locales
lpr
lsof
m4
manpages-dev
mh
mpack
mtools
ncurses-term
ncurses3.4-dev
netbase
netstd
pdksh
ppp
ppp-pam
procmail
rcs
sharutils
strace
tcsh
tetex-base
tetex-bin
tetex-extra
time
wenglish
zlib1g


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