on Sun, Feb 01, 2004 at 03:56:12PM +0000, Colin Watson (cjwatson@debian.org) wrote: > On Sat, Jan 31, 2004 at 10:49:59AM -0700, Monique Y. Herman wrote: > > On 2004-01-31, John Hasler penned: > > > Not true. Perl is in the base system. You have to stick to basic > > > Perl, though. No libraries. > > > > I'm confused. I opened up aptitude, went to installed packages->base, > > and I see no perl there. Now, reading your comment, I used > > `dpkg -p perl-base` and sure enough, it says Section: base. > > > > So, um, is there a way to list all packages that are in a particular > > section? My aptitude test must have been naive, but I'm not sure why. > > Other than my just-now "reverse-engineered" approach of trying the url > > http://packages.debian.org/unstable/base/ , that is. > > Try grep-dctrl. For what it's worth, though, the base section is pretty > much obsolete as a specification of what's in base; the actual > definition nowadays is "whatever debootstrap installs". What's the distinction here? The old base system images, vs. a more dynamic installation process? Peace. -- Karsten M. Self <kmself@ix.netcom.com> http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What Part of "Gestalt" don't you understand? The revolution will not be televised. You can apt-get it from the usual mirrors, however. http://www.debian.org/
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