Re: [Fwd: Re: Why?]
On Sat, 2006-07-15 at 16:36 -0500, Ron Johnson wrote:
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> Owen Heisler wrote:
> > On Sat, 2006-07-15 at 15:58 -0500, John Hasler wrote:
> >> Owen Heisler writes:
> >>> I mean that the Debian installer, I think, should install only what is
> >>> /necessary/ for a complete system. This includes all the "important" and
> >>> "essential" packages but excludes stuff like ppp and (especially) gnome
> >>> or kde.
> >> For many people ppp is necessary for a network install. Debian does not
> >> install Gnome or KDE unless you tell it to.
> >
> > Okay, bad example then. You know what I mean.
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> Yes. It means that one person's "essential" is another person's
> "useless".
Ha, yeah, I guess so! Still, I was thinking more of packages like
"login" that could surely be considered "essential" for 99% of Debian
systems out there, along with the common frontends to apt for package
management, like aptitude and dselect, so other packages can be
installed using the preferred program.
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