Craig Sanders wrote: > 300 sounds like a lot...are you including all shared libs and -dev and > -altdev packages?
No, I was just including everything that ended with a number. That excludes the -dev packages and it probably includes some things that don't belong. As I said, it's a "crude" count. > in any case, i don't see it as a problem. IMO, the fact that they have > different package names is USEFUL information. it tells me that there's > something possibly weird or dangerous going on and i should be extra > careful before i select it in dselect...maybe even switch to another > shell and investigate further by unpacking the package in /tmp and > reading the changelog or readme.Debian before installing it. So you want new users to be scared/confused into doing this with all 300 packages? -- see shy jo
