Hi, Quoting Josh Triplett (2020-01-21 03:08:26) > mmdebstrap's documentation and --help document the default variant as > "required". However, when I tried mmdebstrap, it defaulted to installing > various packages with priority "important". Passing --variant=required > produced a much smaller installation. > > Please consider changing the default to "required" to match the > documentation.
whoops, thanks for making me aware of this! Unfortunately, this is a bug in the documentation. The default variant should be "debootstrap" or "-" because mmdebstrap is supposed to be a drop-in replacement for debootstrap. So instead of changing the default to match the documentation, I'm afraid I will have to change the documentation to match the (correct) behaviour. If you want a smaller rootfs, you will have to pass --variant=minbase as you would with debootstrap. Thanks! cheers, josch
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