On Sat, 2006-07-15 at 16:36 -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > Owen Heisler wrote: > > On Sat, 2006-07-15 at 15:58 -0500, John Hasler wrote: > >> Owen Heisler writes: > >>> I mean that the Debian installer, I think, should install only what is > >>> /necessary/ for a complete system. This includes all the "important" and > >>> "essential" packages but excludes stuff like ppp and (especially) gnome > >>> or kde. > >> For many people ppp is necessary for a network install. Debian does not > >> install Gnome or KDE unless you tell it to. > > > > Okay, bad example then. You know what I mean. > > Yes. It means that one person's "essential" is another person's > "useless".
Ha, yeah, I guess so! Still, I was thinking more of packages like "login" that could surely be considered "essential" for 99% of Debian systems out there, along with the common frontends to apt for package management, like aptitude and dselect, so other packages can be installed using the preferred program. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
