After completing my install using the Jan 3rd snapshot, I found the
following crucial packages missing, which I suppose may be caused by
their "optional" priority:
- hotplug
This one is the prefered way to handle USB stuff, and without
it my machine with a USB mouse, well... did not have a usable
mouse. Given that USB devices are more and more ubiquitous,
and that it's non-trivial to make them work without hotplug
(you know, hid, mousedev, etc), and that when installing
hotplug afterward you have {un,re}plug your USB devices, or to
reboot, to have them seen, it would seem reasonable to have it
there by default, and installed early.
Not having it available when it is referenced in
/proc/sys/kernel/hotplug by default would be like not having
modutils installed by default...
- gpm
Maybe less crucial (esp. as the mouse was not configured ;),
but quite standard in fact... Maybe it's not included because
it has not been debconfized ?
- tree
Even less crucial, but I believe it is quite standard as well
now.
What's to be done about that, assuming most people agree with this ?
Requesting priorities to be raised in the override file ? Or is there
some d-i-specific action to be done ?
Regards,
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