Robert Cymbala wrote: > I don't get it. Why does dselect "want" to install so much, whereas > the operating-system install (from Rescue Disk boot to the "Have Fun!" > message) did not?
Dselect installs all standard priority packages by default. The task system does not (in the version of debian you use; this was an oversight, and it does/will in all later versions). > If so, is there a design reason why it's meant to be that way, or did > it evolve (in the negative sense of "evolve"), sort of like some > packages use "Debian Configuration" and others don't? That is not an evolution, that is the fact that potato shipped with us 50% through the transition to debconf (and woody will probably ship with us 90% through). -- see shy jo