Re: woody release task needs help: package priorities

["J.A. Bezemer" <costar@panic.et.tudelft.nl>]

On Fri, 18 May 2001, Anthony Towns wrote:

> On Sat, May 12, 2001 at 03:46:13AM -0400, Adam Di Carlo wrote:
> > Here's a provisional list of packages which are standard or higher and
> > should not be:
> >   fingerd       not very secure for baseline
> >   ftpd          not very secure for baseline
> >   talk          rather obsolete, but debatable
> >   talkd         not very secure for baseline
> >   telnetd       not very secure for baseline
> 
> I've dropped all of these to optional. (*d based on most people not really
> needing servers running locally, talk based on it presumably not being much
> use without a talkd)
> 
> It might be useful to be able to get these sorts of things back using a
> 'unix-servers' task or similar.
> 
> Since there's a 'tetex' task, I've also dropped tetex from standard to
> optional: people who want TeX will need to choose the task now.

And since there's a task-c-dev, also drop gcc from standard?

What about making a few task-* packages standard and have tasksel pre-select
them by default? (I.e. start with [X] instead of [ ])

Another thing: will it still be _easy_ to install a small system without gcc,
emacs, lpr, rcs etc.?


Regards,
  Anne Bezemer