On Wed, Oct 01, 2003 at 11:29:54AM -0700, Henry S. Vieira wrote: > I've installed Debian for the first time and after the installation of > the base system and the first boot I had 86MB used. After that, the > post-boot dselect installed more packages, e.g perl, python. I did not > select any package, I just exited dselect. Are these default packages > really necessary and part of the base system? Where does the list come > from? Does dselect use the base system, checks the dependencies and > install these other packages?
The first time you start dselect, it installs all packages listed as "Priority: standard" (and their dependencies, but "Priority: standard" is supposed to be closed under dependency). The standard installation is more than the base system, and you can remove bits of it if you like. Cheers, -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
