On Wed, 30 May 2001, Joey Hess wrote:
> J.A. Bezemer wrote:
>
> > What about making a few task-* packages standard and have tasksel pre-select
> > them by default? (I.e. start with [X] instead of [ ])
>
> That's not a bad idea.
>
> > Another thing: will it still be _easy_ to install a small system without gcc,
> > emacs, lpr, rcs etc.?
>
> Yes, at least two simple ways with the latest rev of base-config. Either
> choose not to run tasksel or dselect at all (which results in just the
> base system being installed),
AFAIK in current potato floppies there's no APT setup done in that case,
which, well, doesn't make things very easy. Or has that been changed lately?
> or have it run first tasksel, and then
> dselect and de-select anything you dislike.
I'd hardly call that easy. (I'm thinking from an "informed newbie with small
disk" perspective.)
Regards,
Anne Bezemer
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