Re: Proposing task-debian

[Sam Hartman <hartmans@mit.edu>]

>>>>> "Joey" == Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> writes:

    Joey> If these tools become widly enough accepted that we think
    Joey> everyone should have them available by default, we can make
    Joey> them standard priority.

In the new universe (debbootstrap, tasksel, etc) where a user might
never run dselect, what makes sure that in the default configuration,
standard priority packages get installed?  I seem to be running into a
lot of systems I install that end up without ed or emacs20.  It's my
understanding that if I pick the defaults I really ought to end up
with these.
[I'm not interested in a flamewar about whether emacs20 should be standard; currently it is.]