On Sat, 31 Oct 2015 19:41:47 +0000 Joe <j...@jretrading.com> wrote: > On Sat, 31 Oct 2015 18:49:59 +0000 > Brian <a...@cityscape.co.uk> wrote: > > > On Sat 31 Oct 2015 at 10:01:36 -0600, Mario Castelán Castro wrote: > > > > > Will Debian 9 no longer install Aptitude by default?. > > > > Que Sera, Sera..... . Let's stay in the present (in line with the > > post which started this thread) and look at unstable. Here are two > > verifiable facts: > > > > brian@sid:~$ dpkg --status aptitude | grep Priority > > Priority: important > > > > Debian policy says: > > > > The base system consists of all those packages with priority > > required or important. > > > > Sid "not including aptitude by default in the stock installation" > > would be somewhat unusual. > > > > When did it begin? I can't recall any stable up to squeeze that > included aptitude at the base level. When I've started from the ground > up, aptitude, sudo and mc are the first things I've always added to a > minimal netinstall. >
Since there seems to be some confusion over this, a datum: I've just run a basic jessie netinstall (no tasks selected) and aptitude was *not* installed. 23.6MB of disc space, for the record, which is certainly a fair bit for a text utility. Total disc space used is about 740MB. -- Joe
