On Fri, Mar 14, 2008 at 01:41:08AM -0800, Ken Irving wrote: > > 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, ...) > > That sounds plausible, but how do you know that? I was curious since
It's just a guess. For my current install (sid) I used Doug's method[1]: 1. Do not select any task 2. Add just the packages I need in aptitude interactive mode Currently I have all packages of priority 'important' and 'required' but I am missing many 'standard' (I do use replacements for some). The priorities must be documented somewhere, probably in Policy or Developers Reference (or both). [1] Doug's method is good, but I want to automate it further. I just have to write a sed script to make the output of 'aptitude search !~M~i' suitable for 'dpkg --set-selections' Regards, Andrei -- If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough. (Albert Einstein)
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