On Mon, Jan 12, 2004 at 05:22:59PM +0100, Yann Dirson wrote: > 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...
I agree this is important on USB-using machines and it would be good to
pull these in automatically when needed, but
> - 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.
I see no reason why either of these packages should be defaults at all
(the first is ridiculously buggy, the second I've never heard of).
--
Steve Langasek
postmodern programmer
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