Hi, Brian wrote: > There can be no dispute over the meaning of "standard system > utilities". These are the ones which have a "Priority: standard" > field in the package description.
There can always be a dispute. q.e.d. (Hey. You smuggled the word "system" between "standard" and "utility.) Higher than "standard" are priorities "required" and "important". But i am not sure whether the official classification in https://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-archive.html#s-priorities of the first three priorities really matches the idea of a set of "standard [system] utilities": "standard These packages provide a reasonably small but not too limited character-mode system." I.e. no X Window System: https://tracker.debian.org/media/packages/x/xorg/control-1%3A7.7%2B19 No command line CD/DVD/BD burning: https://tracker.debian.org/media/packages/c/cdrkit/control-9%3A1.1.11-3 https://tracker.debian.org/media/packages/d/dvd%2Brw-tools/control-7.1-12 https://tracker.debian.org/media/packages/libi/libisoburn/control-1.4.8-3 Have a nice day :) Thomas