On Wed, Mar 07, 2007 at 10:34:17PM +0530, Masatran, R. Deepak wrote: > Background: Installing Debian Testing with DVD 1 on a workstation. > > Why not install the following software by default? > Because Debian has a very minimal base install. You can install all of these packages yourself. I will give specific why reasons why they are not in the default.
> 1. Vim nano is in the base install and is sufficient > 2. Emacs HUGE > 3. Screen not necessary in a base install > 4. SSHD bad idea to start network services without the admin asking you to > > Why not make the install disk also a live one? Ubuntu does this. > OK. So go use Ubuntu. Seriously, Ubuntu supports like two or three hardware architectures. Debian supports like 13. A live CD doesn't make sense on all of those and probably isn't possible on others. Regards, -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sanchez http://people.connexer.com/~roberto http://www.connexer.com
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