On Sun, 2006-07-16 at 16:20 -0500, John Hasler wrote: > Owen Heisler writes: > > 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. > > Packages that are considered absolutely essential are tagged 'essential' > and dpkg will refuse to remove them. 'login' is 'essential'. > > Packages in section 'base' form the minimum set required to run the package > management system and install packages. Not all 'base' packages are > 'essential' or 'required' as packages such as ppp which not all users will > need are in 'base'. > > Priorities are: > > required > > Packages which are necessary for the proper functioning of the > system (usually, this means that dpkg functionality depends on > these packages). Removing an required package may cause your > system to become totally broken and you may not even be able to > use dpkg to put things back, so only do so if you know what you > are doing. Systems with only the required packages are probably > unusable, but they do have enough functionality to allow the > sysadmin to boot and install more software. > > important > > Important programs, including those which one would expect to > find on any Unix-like system. If the expectation is that an > experienced Unix person who found it missing would say "What on > earth is going on, where is foo?", it must be an important > package.[4] Other packages without which the system will not run > well or be usable must also have priority important. This does > not include Emacs, the X Window System, TeX or any other large > applications. The important packages are just a bare minimum of > commonly-expected and necessary tools. > > standard > > These packages provide a reasonably small but not too limited > character-mode system. This is what will be installed by default > if the user doesn't select anything else. It doesn't include > many large applications. > > > optional > > > (In a sense everything that isn't required is optional, but > that's not what is meant here.) This is all the software that > you might reasonably want to install if you didn't know what it > was and don't have specialized requirements. This is a much > larger system and includes the X Window System, a full TeX > distribution, and many applications. Note that optional packages > should not conflict with each other. > > extra > > > This contains all packages that conflict with others with > required, important, standard or optional priorities, or are > only likely to be useful if you already know what they are or > have specialized requirements.
Interesting; thanks! I would be thinking of, then, all the packages in "required" and "important". Perhaps "standard". What does the installer do now, if tasksel is not used? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
