After potato install, why does 1st dselect install so much?

2001-04-09 Thread Robert Cymbala
AFTER SEARCHING through about 18 months of debian-user archives and not finding a related thread, here's a question that's been on my mind looking for a high-level answer. Just now I did a fresh install of potato (2.2r2) from CD and chose these tasks: [*] Dialup Dialup utilities

Re: After potato install, why does 1st dselect install so much?

2001-04-09 Thread Joey Hess
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

Re: After potato install, why does 1st dselect install so much?

2001-04-09 Thread David Wright
Quoting Robert Cymbala ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): AFTER SEARCHING through about 18 months of debian-user archives and not finding a related thread, here's a question that's been on my mind looking for a high-level answer. I don't know about high-level; I can only make some observations. Just now

Re: After potato install, why does 1st dselect install so much?

2001-04-09 Thread Robert Cymbala
David Wright [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Date: Mon, 9 Apr 2001 14:45:40 +0100 [...] Quoting Robert Cymbala ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): [...] Just now I did a fresh install of potato (2.2r2) from CD and chose these tasks: [*] Dialup Dialup utilities [*] Laptop A