On Thu, Mar 13, 2008 at 03:59:27PM -0800, Ken Irving wrote:
 
> The search subcommand can be used to list those packages:
> 
>   aptitude search ~pstandard ~prequired ~pimportant
> 
> though it's still not clear what is really added in this step, since
> some of the packages were presumably installed during part of the
> base install.   I might do another install without this option and
> see what the difference is...

It seems to that a base install includes 'required' and 'important', 
while 'standard' will add packages that are considered, well, standard 
on a *nix system, but won't make it unusable if missing (e.g.  bc, 
openbsd-inetd, ...)

Regards,
Andrei
-- 
If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough.
(Albert Einstein)

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