I'd like to second this problem, I was going to file a new report but saw this one. Yesterday I installed 3 brand new Dell 1950 servers using Etch installer 20061102. I usually go for "Manual package selection" and go for leanest possible system but now this option was missing. First I tried without selecting anything but saw alot of strange gnome and gtk stuff being installed (no xorg though) (~470 packages). So I re-installed and tried to bypass the selection by pressing escape, but the gnome packages still got installed. Third time (after rtfm) I went for the "Standard" option which was supposed to be the minimal system but this time tasksel installed even more packages (around 510 packages), So I decided to use "tasksel remove" after install instead. After installation I tried the command "tasksel remove gnome-desktop" and to my relief tasksel started removing alot of packages but after it was finished it started installing the same packages again with no prompting, after it was done I was in the same position I started at.
I eventually had to remove all unvanted packages manually. I would very much for the "manual package selection" or skip tasksel to stay in the installer, but I guess that's an issue for the debian-installer team. -- Mathias Jansson System Administrator, Midasplayer AB S:t Göransgatan 66 SE-112 33 Stockholm Mobile. +46 (0)70 811 75 40 Fax. +46 (0)8 545 70 439 "Flight Reservation systems decide whether or not you exist. If your information isn't in their database, then you simply don't get to go anywhere." -- Arthur Miller
