Hi there! On Sun, 16 Oct 2011 00:48:11 +0200, Josh Triplett wrote: > Neil Williams wrote: >> On Sat, 15 Oct 2011 22:29:56 +0200 >> Andreas Barth <a...@not.so.argh.org> wrote: >> > * Neil Williams (codeh...@debian.org) [111015 22:23]: >> > > The problem with "Standard" is that it is currently (and heavily) biased >> > > towards multi-user servers and most of the replies in this thread which >> > > decry the absence of an MTA would appear to come from those principally >> > > concerned with servers. It just doesn't fit with desktop users or >> > > embedded users. >> > >> > "Standard" is just another word for "what someone expect so it's >> > considered as normal unix", which *is* a multi-user server. >> > >> > Perhaps the task isn't named perfect, but that's just what standard >> > is. >> >> If it was just a task used by tasksel, I'd be happy. The connotation of >> Priority: standard in debian/control is somewhat different and, to me >> at least, completely unnecessary. >> >> tasksel doesn't need anything in the Packages file, so why do we still >> retain Priority: in debian/control other than for Priority: required? >> The list of standard packages could just live in /usr/share/tasksel/ - >> only one place to change it. >> >> Why is it anywhere else? > > As far as I know, Priority has the following non-cosmetic uses: > - d-i installs everything >= important by default. > - tasksel's standard task, selected by default in d-i, additionally > installs packages with priority standard.
It seems there is *no* tasksel's standard task:
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luca@gismo:~$ tasksel --list
u desktop Debian desktop environment
u web-server Web server
u print-server Print server
u database-server SQL database
u dns-server DNS Server
u file-server File server
u mail-server Mail server
u ssh-server SSH server
u laptop Laptop
u manual manual package selection
luca@gismo:~$ apt-cache policy tasksel
tasksel:
Installed: 3.05
Candidate: 3.05
Version table:
*** 3.05 0
990 http://cdn.debian.net/debian/ sid/main amd64 Packages
100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
luca@gismo:~$
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So I stand corrected by myself for the installation tests I did last
week [1]. And in this vision, what d-i shows as a tasksel's "standard"
tasks is actually not a tasksel's task at all. Is this a bug?
[1] <http://lists.debian.org/87pqi1ciqk.fsf%40gismo.pca.it>
Thx, bye,
Gismo / Luca
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