Getting Started with Debian: Package Selection Sanity
Hi everyone,
I've been using Red Hat for a reasonable amount of time, but I'm a total
newbie to Debian; I'm just installing potato for the first time today.
I'm starting to get familiar with the tools, but I must admit that I'm a
little overwhelmed by the number of packages in the distribution. And
so far, I've only been looking at the one binary CDROM. :)
Is there a sane approach to initially selecting packages? Is it best to
use the tasks, or go through the entire list package-by-package? Would
you start with just the CD and then add the FTP site to sources.list
later, or consider everything all at once?
Acutally, I have a further question about the task packages. Using
dselect, if I try to purge a package that has been added bacause of a
task, it tells me, of course, that the task package depends on the one I
want to remove. Should I remove the task? Will all the other packages
that were installed because of it remain?
Sorry for the newbie questions. Thanks for any help.
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David Steinberg
steinber@interchange.ubc.ca
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