On Fri, Mar 09, 2007 at 09:42:51AM -0800, Michael M. wrote: > On Wed, 2007-03-07 at 22:34 +0530, Masatran, R. Deepak wrote: > > > What is a "Standard system" in Tasksel? > > > According to this: > http://d-i.alioth.debian.org/manual/en.i386/apds02.html > > "Standard system" in tasksel takes up 365MB of disk space, whereas the > minimal base installation will take 227MB. I'm not sure, though, if > there is a list of what is included in the former that is missing from > the latter. > >
tasksel is implemented as a perl script in Etch. It has a man page which is worth reading. The task options that I see when I run "tasksel --list-tasks" are: i desktop Desktop environment u web-server Web server i print-server Print server u dns-server DNS server u file-server File server i mail-server Mail server u database-server SQL database u laptop Laptop u manual manual package selection (The 'i's and 'u's indicate which have been selected on my system. They may very well be different on other systems.) I do not see "Standard system" as a declared task option. Perhaps OP meant "Desktop environment". In any case "tasksel --list-packages <task>" lists the packages that will be installed for any of the several defined tasks. Since it is a perl script, perl support must already be in the base system for it to be executable. (duh ;-) So, from the point of view of some Linux users, the Debian base system is not truly 'base only'. HTH -- Paul E Condon [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
