> The other point is that including (either) provisioner takes us further > from the standard Debian image.
BTW, Was is actually a standard Debian image ? To the best of my knowledge, I would define it as all the packages with Priority: required and important. According to the Debian Jessie installation guide [1], the *standard* task is also recommended. In server/containers environments it makes sense to restrict the list of packages installed. However the main aim of the Vagrant Virtualbox base boxes,are shareable development environments. In this kind of setup, I would expect the usual comfort of the debian experience, having for instance a mail server to send stuff, bash-completion or patch installed, all packages with come with the standard priority. So I am in favor of installing this task, which will bring aptitude as a side effect. Concerning the inclusion/removal of providers via specific boxes, why not. [1] https://www.debian.org/releases/jessie/i386/apbs04.html.en Section: Package selection -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org