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Re: Stop dselect installing packages



On Tue, Feb 05, 2002 at 03:47:03PM +0000, Patrick Colbeck wrote:
> I did a minimal install on a server here that is just going to be an FTP
> and DNS server in a test lab. I did the initial install to reboot and
> then quite the install so far so good.
> 
> Unfortunately when I go into dselect to install proftp etc and the
> choose install dselect also wants to install a whole raft of other stuff
> like latex and emacs stuff I real don't need on this server.

Those are the packages marked as standard. Remove the selections once in
dselect (use the '_' key) and it won't ask you again.

-- 
Colin Watson                                  [cjwatson@flatline.org.uk]



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