Re: [debian-devel] Re: Ancient architecture
Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org> writes:
> On Sun, Mar 28, 2004 at 07:32:45PM +0200, Goswin von Brederlow wrote:
> > John Hasler <john@dhh.gt.org> writes:
> > > Goswin von Brederlow writes:
> > > > Maybe important is too strong but standard would be a good middle
> > > > ground. So many Debian users will need ppp for their modem or dsl
> > > > connection to install additional packages.
> > >
> > > PPP is in base so it takes a special effort to get rid of it even though
> > > it's optional.
> >
> > Is ppp optional so that dselect won't keep adding it back in when it
> > was removed?
>
> dselect doesn't do that. It installs *new* standard packages, but not
> standard packages it's already seen.
Right, sorry, its been years since I used dselect. All hail apt. :)
MfG
Goswin
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