Re: Which task package installs gpm?
On Mon, Sep 18, 2000 at 03:05:05PM -0700, Joey Hess wrote:
> Tasksel does support autoselecting required, important, and standard
> packages via the -r, -i, and -s switches. Currently, though, it is only
> called with -ri, not -ris.
>
> Policy states that:
>
> `standard'
> These packages provide a reasonably small but not too limited
> character-mode system. This is what will install by default if
> the user doesn't select anything else.
>
> When I was writing base-config I read this and was a little confused about
> its intent. Does it mean that standard packages should only be autoselected
> if the user selects nothing else? If so, dselect is sorta kinda in violation.
> And what should tasksel do? Not autoselect standard packages if the user
> picks any tasks at all?
Well, I don't even have a handle on what is marked standard any more.
But it feels to me like adding -s is the right thing to do.
Dan
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