Achim Gratz wrote:
They are, if you don't fiddle with a checkbox that you shouldn't be able to
toggle in the first place. In other words it's a bug in the GUI that you
are able to bypass the install of some Base packages.
No, I don't agree with that statement. I'd be more inclined to believe
that it's a bug in the command-line interface that doesn't allow you to
do what the GUI does.
The default installation package selected by the GUI is by no means a
minimally useful one, and there are many reasons why one might want to
install fewer packages than it includes. Being able to do so hardly
seems like a bug.
Frankly, I was surprised the dependency tree for bash was so large. Bash
depends on texinfo? I see the chain that gets you there, but it still
surprised me.
Regards,
Achim.
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