Re: utilities

["Thomas Schmitt" <scdbackup@gmx.net>]

Hi,

Brian wrote:
> There can be no dispute over the meaning of "standard system
> utilities". These are the ones which have a "Priority: standard"
> field in the package description.

There can always be a dispute. q.e.d.

(Hey. You smuggled the word "system" between "standard" and "utility.)

Higher than "standard" are priorities "required" and "important".

But i am not sure whether the official classification in
  https://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-archive.html#s-priorities
of the first three priorities really matches the idea of a set of
"standard [system] utilities":

  "standard
   These packages provide a reasonably small but not too limited
   character-mode system."

I.e. no X Window System:
  https://tracker.debian.org/media/packages/x/xorg/control-1%3A7.7%2B19
No command line CD/DVD/BD burning:
  https://tracker.debian.org/media/packages/c/cdrkit/control-9%3A1.1.11-3
  https://tracker.debian.org/media/packages/d/dvd%2Brw-tools/control-7.1-12
  https://tracker.debian.org/media/packages/libi/libisoburn/control-1.4.8-3


Have a nice day :)

Thomas